Posted on 03/30/2015 10:06:01 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The researchers from University College London studied nearly 3,000 families in five regions in the UK who were taking part in the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP). They measured the children’s BMI, which in Britain is broken down into three categories: normal weight, overweight (above the 85th percentile), or very overweight (i.e., equivalent to obese in the US, above the 95th percentile). The team also asked the kids’ parents what BMI group they thought they fit into.
It turned out that parents were extraordinarily poor at determining whether their children were overweight or obese. Of the 369 kids who were very overweight, only four parents thought they were. When the researchers analyzed the numbers further, they saw that for a given child with a BMI in the 98th percentile, a whopping 80% of parents would say that the child was normal weight. It would take a child being in the 99.7th percentile for the parents to even say the child was overweight, let alone very overweight.
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If you tip your child over and they roll then they are overweight.
Can You Tell If Your Government Is Overweight? Most Americans Can’t, Steely Tom Study Shows.
If you go broke at one of those “pay what your kid weighs” restaurant.
The fat cat government needs to reduce.
They’re 4 and you can’t pick them up?
Chances are they’re over weight.
This isn’t rocket science.
Either millions of parents are wrong, or the government reasearcher is. Lets have a vote.
My son was an obese baby. Always around 50th percentile in height and off the charts in weight. Even I was worried. Now at 6, he is the star on his basketball and soccer teams and seems to have 6-pack abs coming through. Not sure when the transition started or ended. We put him in soccer at 4 and he was maybe a little above average. At 5 in the spring there was maybe 2 on his team that were better. Did summer basketball and he started average and by the end of the season was dominant. Did soccer again in the fall and he was head and shoulders better than everyone else and he was a kindergartener on a k-1 team. He is now finishing another basketball season and had to be moved up to a 2nd and 3rd grade team (he is still in kindergarten). Growth can be illogical and funny. Now he eats what he wants and when he wants and just burns it right off.
My 3rd son was a chubby kid until 10th grade when he suddenly grew 4 inches. When he started playing Pop Warner football at 8 yrs old he was always an offensive lineman. He played Guard and Center. In high school after his growth spurt he played TE and MLB. He is now a Sgt in the Marine Corps. He is 6’2” 195 lbs. Some kids start out naturally chubby and out grow it.
It’s interesting to look at elementary school class photos from the 1950’s. Overweight kids were rare.
Excellent.
Apparently schools and government agencies cannot tell either.
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