All In The Family

The Struggle To Keep Our Children Lean And Healthy Many parents do not identify their child as “overweight,” but will select a sketch of a heavier model when asked to choose one representative of their child, new study findings show. “Comparisons between images and sketches showed that parents’ visual perceptions of their children more clearly reflect their child’s physical appearance than words they might use to classify the child’s weight,” study author Dr. Helen J. Binns, of Northwestern University in Chicago told Reuters Health. “So parents have a correct visual perception, but don’t consider that to fit in the medical diagnostic categories,” she added. more ...