Elk Grove Village, IL—(ENEWSPF)—August 25, 2014. Parents’ inability to recognize the overweight or obese status of their child may be one explanation for the poor results of pediatric obesity prevention and control efforts, which have yielded only modest results in the past few years.
In a study in the September 2014 Pediatrics (published online Aug. 25), “Generational Shift in Parental Perceptions of Overweight Among School-Aged Children,” parents were asked whether they considered their…
