Sentences with phrase «of overweight children»

It includes practical information on positive parenting strategies as well as activities and between - session tasks for parents of overweight children aged 5 to 10 years.

In the last decade, the percentage of overweight children in the age group 9 to 15 years has more than doubled.

Eating behavior had not been considered in previous research on the parent — child relationship in clinical samples of overweight children.

Many cases of overweight children are mostly caused by the current habit of spending time at the computer instead of outdoors.

The aim of our study was to replicate the finding from clinical samples that families of overweight children demonstrate adverse characteristics of the parent — child relationship.

But parents of overweight children have an added burden.

«Opening a casino linked with lower rate of overweight children in that community.»

At the same time, according to the CDC, America's fast food diet and sedentary lifestyle has led to a quadrupling of the number of overweight children ages 6 - 11 since the 1960s.

The percentage of overweight children ages 6 - 19 has nearly quadrupled in the United States since the 1960s, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

At least 80 per cent of parents of overweight children think their kids are a healthy weight, and the reasons for this blind spot are complex

Sylvia Rimm, PhD, a clinical professor at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, in Cleveland, suggests that the low self - esteem of overweight children may make them targets for their peers.

A December 2007 New England Journal of Medicine study reported that 80 % of overweight children grow up to be obese adults.

You'll notice on that same page that the proportion of overweight children also increased by the year 2000.»

Indeed, one reads in one of Rothstein's November 2000 columns, here citing the U.S. Surgeon General, that «with the percentage of overweight children doubling in the last 30 years, school kids are less healthy.»

Rather worryingly, the latest NHS health survey also found that nine in 10 mothers and eight in 10 fathers of an overweight child described them as being about the right weight, and excluding school - based activities, 22 % of children aged five to 15 met the physical activity guidelines of being at least moderately active for at least 60 minutes every day.

Her book, Rescuing the Emotional Lives of Overweight Children, was a finalist for the Books for a Better Life Award.

There is evidence to suggest that parents tend to under report the weight of overweight children [43], which could explain the lower proportion of overweight and obese children (15 %) in our sample compared with data for age - matched peers in Australia (18 - 21 % for 2 - 3 year olds in 2007)[3].

«Despite a welcome decline in the rates of overweight children and a plateau in obesity, we can't become complacent,» states Dr. Rodd.

The National Child Measurement Programme's 2013 survey revealed that for the first time in six years the number of overweight children had fallen.

Randomised Controlled Trial to the Study the Effectiveness of Lifestyle Triple P: A Childhood Obesity Intervention Aimed at Parents of Overweight Children — Sanne Gerards

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that the percentage of overweight children and adolescents has more than doubled in the past two decades, but programs like CircusFit are catching on.

«Basically, we compared parents of overweight children who recognized their children were overweight with parents of overweight children who did not recognize their children were overweight to see if knowing your child is overweight is associated with better behavior,» Neumark - Sztainer said.

For the parents of overweight children, every day is a balancing act; on one hand, there is the natural desire to show one's child unconditional... Read more...