Today's Parents Less Able to Spot Obesity in Their Kids: Study [Consumer.Healthday.com]

Samantha Sangenito 8/25/1412:00 PM

Parents have become less able to realize when their child is overweight or obese, a new study finds.

In fact, parents interviewed between 2005 and 2010 were 24 percent less likely to spot a weight problem in their child than parents interviewed between 1988 and 1994, the researchers said.

The report was published online Aug. 25 in the journal Pediatrics.

[For more of this story, written by Dennis Thompson, go to http://consumer.healthday.com/...dy-shows-691022.html]

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