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Wednesday, March 17, 2004'A third of the mothers and 57 percent of dads actually saw their obese child as normal,' said Alison Jeffery, a member of the research team at the medical school. 'Quite a few parents are not recognising it as a problem. They are not recognising the health risks either,' she added in an interview. The article doesn't say how obese the kids in the study were. But, categorizing someone as obese or overweight just based on their appearance is often tricky. I once had a partner who labelled every woman over 135 pounds "obese" regardless of what her BMI actually turned out to be (he never took the time to figure it.) He would write it right there in the record, "mildly obese, moderately obese, obese, morbidly obese," depending on his impression. He wasn't nearly as loose and free with the obesity label for men, though. They usually had to weigh over 250 pounds before he called them obese. posted by Sydney on 3/17/2004 08:07:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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