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Parents rank their obese children as 'very healthy'
====I found this topic interesting because in this day and age we find a lot more people either becoming overweight or obese. The study was based on a survey of 202 parents whose children were enrolled in an obesity clinic at the Hasbro Children's Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island in 2008 and 2009. The children ranged in age from 5 to 20 years old, with an average age of 13.8 years. More than two-thirds were female, and almost all (94 percent) were clinically classified as obese. Specifically, 61.4 percent of parents reported that they were improving their child’s eating habits (less junk food, more fruits and vegetables) while only 41.1 percent said there were increasing their child’s involvement in active play, sports, dancing or even walking. Both diet and exercise are considered keys to good health, and a growing body of evidence suggest that these health habits are formed early in life. Experts say one strategy to counteract the trend may be to intervene early. Parents with children 14 or older were much less likely to be successful in helping their child develop a physical dimension to their life that parents of younger children. Poverty may also play a role in how much children move on a daily basis, as parents with annual incomes of less than $40,000 were also less likely to be actively engaged in ensuring their child got regular exercise. In the book Mastering the World of Psychology (Chapter 9.7) Obesity and Weight Loss it says that children who are obese also require medical assistance to lose weight because calorie restriction diets can interfere with their growth.====

Kyung E. Rhee, Rebecca McEachern, Elissa Jelalian. Parent Readiness to Change Differs from Overweight Child Dietary and Physical Activity Behaviors. Journal of the Academy of #|Nutrition and Dietetics, 2014
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#|University of California, San Diego Health Sciences, “Parents rank their #|obese children as ‘very #|health’.” Science Daily. ScienceDaily, 21 July 2014.

Wood, Samuel E., Ellen R. Green. Wood, and Denise Roberts. Boyd. Mastering the World of Psychology. Fourth ed. Boston: Pearson/Allyn and #|Bacon, 2011. #|Print.

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