As the U.S. launches its first-ever National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month today, scientists say the problem may be even more widespread than was thought. Researchers have found that parents tend to underreport their children's weight. Estimates of obesity and body mass index (BMI) based on parent-supplied data may miss one in five obese children.Stop Nutritional Child Abuse - go here.
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Friday, September 17, 2010
Childhood Obesity May Be Underreported
Which means that Nutritional Child Abuse may be underreported.
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