Sentences with phrase «overweight children think»

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

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Having a disturbed body image, meaning that your child thinks that he or she is overweight, even though they are really underweight or at a healthy weight.

That is, children whose parents thought they were overweight perceived their own body size more negatively and were more likely to report attempts to lose weight.

Children whose parents considered them to be «overweight» tended to gain more weight over the following decade compared with children whose parents thought they were a «normal» weight, according to analyses of data from two nationally representative studies published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Children whose parents considered them to be «overweight» tended to gain more weight over the following decade compared with children whose parents thought they were a «normal» weight, according to analyses of data from two nationally representative studies published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological children whose parents thought they were a «normal» weight, according to analyses of data from two nationally representative studies published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

Until the entrenched thinking that whole unprocessed fats such as butter and eggs are somehow unhealthy changes, however, American children will continue to get fatter and fatter as they are plied with whole grains and fruit for breakfast — the most important meal of the day and a real trigger for overweight unless done right.

Overweight children would not be the first thing a visitor to Grafton, West Virginia, would think of when seeing the small farms that cling to steep hillsides and cultivate the bottom land along the Tygart River as one drives into town.

It is thought that this could partially account for the modest fall in obesity levels found by the National Child Measurement Programme in 2013 (33.3 per cent classed as overweight or obese, down from 33.9 per cent the previous year).

But I think another really important thing to remember is that believe it or not it sounds counterintuitive but children who have had food insecurity or inadequate or sort of irregular access to food are often obese or overweight.