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Parents often blind to obesity - Globe and Mail- Childhood Obesity News

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The study also found roughly two in five parents of underweight children believed their kids were average weight and parents were more likely to report sons as underweight and daughters as overweight. University of Melbourne researcher Pene Schmidt analyzed data from a survey of more than 2,100 Australian children aged 4 to 12 and their parents. She compared standard measures of children’s size - body mass index and waist circumference - with parental perceptions and found that the two rarely jibed. That contrasts sharply with a 2004 Statistics Canada report stating that 26 per cent of Canadian children are overweight. Read Childhood Obesity

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