Pediatric Obesity
Parents are blind to their children's weight
Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, February 26th, 2007
The survey was conducted to find out if parents had concerns about their children's weight and if they took any preventive action to avoid obesity in their children.
The study also revealed that 71% of parents of overweight 5-6 year-olds and 43% of parents with overweight 10-12 year-olds did not think their child's weight was a problem.
"These are quite troubling results and...
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