Teens, Parents May Not See a Weight Problem

http://diabetes.org/diabetesnewsarti...healthEDIT.xml

or

http://tinyurl.com/37tofd

(excerpt)

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Many parents of children classified as
overweight or even extremely overweight do not perceive their child as
being excessively heavy, with some wrongly believing that their child
is "about the right weight," new research suggests.

In addition, if the parent fails to perceive a weight issue, odds are
the child will also fail to see a problem.

These findings are "important" and "troublesome," the researchers say
in their report in the medical journal Diabetes Care, because
recognition that a child is overweight is a critical first step to
making diet and lifestyle changes to promote weight loss.

Dr. Asheley Cockrell Skinner of the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill and colleagues interviewed 104 adolescents with type 2
diabetes and their parents about perceptions of the adolescents'
weight, diet and exercise habits.

To gauge weight perceptions, the teens and their parents were asked if
they thought the adolescents were "very overweight, slightly
overweight, about right, slightly thin, or very thin?"

While 87 percent of children were overweight by accepted standards,
"only 41 percent of parents and 35 percent of adolescents considered
the adolescent to be 'very overweight'," the team reports.

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Kurt wrote:
> http://diabetes.org/diabetesnewsarti...healthEDIT.xml
>
> or
>
> http://tinyurl.com/37tofd
>
> (excerpt)
>
> NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Many parents of children classified as
> overweight or even extremely overweight do not perceive their child as
> being excessively heavy, with some wrongly believing that their child
> is "about the right weight," new research suggests.
>
> In addition, if the parent fails to perceive a weight issue, odds are
> the child will also fail to see a problem.
>
> These findings are "important" and "troublesome," the researchers say
> in their report in the medical journal Diabetes Care, because
> recognition that a child is overweight is a critical first step to
> making diet and lifestyle changes to promote weight loss.
>
> Dr. Asheley Cockrell Skinner of the University of North Carolina at
> Chapel Hill and colleagues interviewed 104 adolescents with type 2
> diabetes and their parents about perceptions of the adolescents'
> weight, diet and exercise habits.
>
> To gauge weight perceptions, the teens and their parents were asked if
> they thought the adolescents were "very overweight, slightly
> overweight, about right, slightly thin, or very thin?"
>
> While 87 percent of children were overweight by accepted standards,
> "only 41 percent of parents and 35 percent of adolescents considered
> the adolescent to be 'very overweight'," the team reports.

"Kurt" <kurtwheeling1965@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:7e848aea-b7b1-4c9b-98c1-ab09900c8129@41g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...
> http://diabetes.org/diabetesnewsarti...healthEDIT.xml
>
> or
>
> http://tinyurl.com/37tofd
>
> (excerpt)
>
> NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Many parents of children classified as
> overweight or even extremely overweight do not perceive their child as
> being excessively heavy, with some wrongly believing that their child
> is "about the right weight," new research suggests.
>
> In addition, if the parent fails to perceive a weight issue, odds are
> the child will also fail to see a problem.
>
> These findings are "important" and "troublesome," the researchers say
> in their report in the medical journal Diabetes Care, because
> recognition that a child is overweight is a critical first step to
> making diet and lifestyle changes to promote weight loss.
>
> Dr. Asheley Cockrell Skinner of the University of North Carolina at
> Chapel Hill and colleagues interviewed 104 adolescents with type 2
> diabetes and their parents about perceptions of the adolescents'
> weight, diet and exercise habits.
>
> To gauge weight perceptions, the teens and their parents were asked if
> they thought the adolescents were "very overweight, slightly
> overweight, about right, slightly thin, or very thin?"
>
> While 87 percent of children were overweight by accepted standards,
> "only 41 percent of parents and 35 percent of adolescents considered
> the adolescent to be 'very overweight'," the team reports.
>

well no parent wants to be told their kid is a phatarse. but sadly, just
take a walk through a mall these days and just about every child under
18 is close to obese if not morbidly obese. things certainly are so very
much different today in school and growing up then they were when I
was growing up, and even more different then back in the 40-50's.
when kids often had to get up 2-3hrs before school to do their chores,
help with getting their siblings ready for the day, go to school, not talk
back or fear they'd be asking for two new front teeth for Christmas that
year. come home, do more chores, perhaps go to a neighbors home and
help them with more chores, go out and enjoy quality time doing something
constructive with your friends.. come home, help with supper then do your
homework.. then perhaps play a game with the family sitting around together.
back when there was no eediot box, computers, xbox, ps2-3, psp, etc..when
you were damn lucky to have enough money to have a radio. back then the
obesity epidemic wasn't even a thought in most minds.... granted technology
has been wonderful, but it also I believe is literally KILLING just about
every
nation on this planet. just my nine cents.. (inflation and all.. then again
it ain't
worth shit because of the pending recession *sigh*)

</rant off>
rk, t1

"rk" <rkhaha@gotcha.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Kurt" <kurtwheeling1965@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:7e848aea-b7b1-4c9b-98c1-ab09900c8129@41g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...
>> http://diabetes.org/diabetesnewsarti...healthEDIT.xml
>>
>> or
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/37tofd
>>
>> (excerpt)
>>
>> NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Many parents of children classified as
>> overweight or even extremely overweight do not perceive their child as
>> being excessively heavy, with some wrongly believing that their child
>> is "about the right weight," new research suggests.
>>
>> In addition, if the parent fails to perceive a weight issue, odds are
>> the child will also fail to see a problem.
>>
>> These findings are "important" and "troublesome," the researchers say
>> in their report in the medical journal Diabetes Care, because
>> recognition that a child is overweight is a critical first step to
>> making diet and lifestyle changes to promote weight loss.
>>
>> Dr. Asheley Cockrell Skinner of the University of North Carolina at
>> Chapel Hill and colleagues interviewed 104 adolescents with type 2
>> diabetes and their parents about perceptions of the adolescents'
>> weight, diet and exercise habits.
>>
>> To gauge weight perceptions, the teens and their parents were asked if
>> they thought the adolescents were "very overweight, slightly
>> overweight, about right, slightly thin, or very thin?"
>>
>> While 87 percent of children were overweight by accepted standards,
>> "only 41 percent of parents and 35 percent of adolescents considered
>> the adolescent to be 'very overweight'," the team reports.
>>
>
> well no parent wants to be told their kid is a phatarse. but sadly,
> just
> take a walk through a mall these days and just about every child under
> 18 is close to obese if not morbidly obese. things certainly are so very
> much different today in school and growing up then they were when I
> was growing up, and even more different then back in the 40-50's.
> when kids often had to get up 2-3hrs before school to do their chores,
> help with getting their siblings ready for the day, go to school, not talk
> back or fear they'd be asking for two new front teeth for Christmas that
> year. come home, do more chores, perhaps go to a neighbors home and
> help them with more chores, go out and enjoy quality time doing something
> constructive with your friends.. come home, help with supper then do your
> homework.. then perhaps play a game with the family sitting around
> together.
> back when there was no eediot box, computers, xbox, ps2-3, psp, etc..when
> you were damn lucky to have enough money to have a radio. back then the
> obesity epidemic wasn't even a thought in most minds.... granted
> technology
> has been wonderful, but it also I believe is literally KILLING just about
> every
> nation on this planet. just my nine cents.. (inflation and all.. then
> again it ain't
> worth shit because of the pending recession *sigh*)

My kids have all the modern luxuries of games consoles etc, they are also
computer freaks but they are rail thin. I don't keep a lot of food in the
house and they don't get a lot of spending money. The overweight kids I know
live no different lives than mine but there is way more food available in
their homes than in my mine and they often take money to school for lunches
not bring home made lunch. Kids can survive modern technology, they can't
survive having unlimited food at their fingertips.