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