Color-Coded Chart Improves Parents' Understanding Of Body Mass Index (BMI)

As if having a piglet child is not enough to communicate that the kid is fat.

"A new study shows that parents are more likely to understand a body mass index (BMI) chart if it's color-coded, like a traffic light, than the standard charts currently in use.

'We think that better communication of BMI from doctor to parent could lead to parents earlier awareness of their child's weight status in time to help them make important lifestyle changes,' says Eliana Perrin, M.D., M.P.H., senior and corresponding author of the study and assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine."

Won't make an ounce of difference.