Parents 'wrong' on child weight

The abuse of children by ignorant parents continues.

"Many parents overlook their child's unhealthy weight because they believe it is normal, research suggests...

The University of Melbourne researchers said parents would not act to help their children gain or lose weight if they did not see the problem...

For overweight children alone, this rose to nearly half. Remarkably, a very small percentage of parents had even more extreme views, assessing an overweight child as underweight, or vice versa."

Hey, think this is impressive?

Now hear this:

"Tam Fry, from the National Obesity Forum, said that the results were "unsurprising".

He said: 'There was recent research in this country which showed that a similar proportion of health professionals were unable to make the distinction.'"

Or they are unwilling to so they can enrich themselves by malpracticing.