Overweight Toddlers - Mothers Commonly Underestimate Their Weight

More early nutritional child abuse.

Mothers whose toddlers are overweight frequently see them as having no weight problem and are happy with their body size, suggesting that overweight has become normal for several adults, researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine reported in Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine. They also found that moms of underweight toddlers had accurate perceptions of their body size, but were dissatisfied.

The unaware, just like the fat, should not reproduce.