Parents Less Likely To Identify Their Children’s Obesity
A recent survey has found issues within the parents’ judgment of their children’s obesity. According to the survey, people have grown so accustomed to children being obese that they do not even notice the extra fat on them. The study that was officially published in the Pediatrics said that the parental perceptions of their child’s weight could affect their willingness to infuse healthy changes in their lives. The study was conducted when scientists asked mothers if their children were over-weight. Subsequently, the scientists also took the actual weights of the children and then cross-referenced their BMIs with the BMIs from the data gathered in 2005-2010 and 1988-1994. Arbitrary BMI scores were used in order to determine if the children were obese. The study however, was not concerned if the children were obese or not. Their major concern was if the children that they had identified as obese, were also identified the same by their parents. These records will then be crossreferenced with the opinions of parents around 10+ years ago to find out the comparative acceptability of obesity among children. They finally found out that the parents today are 24 % less likely to correctly identify their children as obese as compared to the parents a decade or
two ago. Hence, we may recognize this as a generational shift in the perception of people. It also means that these parents, therefore, are less likely to make any changes to the diet or activity plans of their family.
Source: http://www.researchomatic.com/childhood-obesity-181908.html