Parents rarely spot child obesity

01 Apr 2015


In a study of 2,976 families in the UK, only four parents thought their child was very overweight. Medical assessments put the figure at 369. Writing in the British Journal of General Practice, the researchers claimed that obesity had become the new normal in society.

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