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...alone. As more and more kids pack on more and more pounds--climbing inexorably from a healthy weight to excess weight to full-blown obesity--parents find themselves grappling with questions they never had to deal with when the only weight problems they had to think about were their own. How do you effectively control another person's eating behavior? How do you motivate someone--especially a young, impulsive, pleasure-driven someone--to make smart food choices, to get up off the couch, to turn off the television? And how do you accomplish that without making that young person feel...
...parents of overweight or obese children ages 2 to 17 identified them as such. An Australian group found that only 11% of parents of overweight 5- and 6-year-olds and 37% of parents of overweight 10-to-12-year-olds were aware that their children had a weight problem. And a 2005 British study found that fewer than 2% of parents of overweight kids from ages 3 to 5--and just over 17% of parents of obese kids of the same age range--saw things for what they were...
...which might begin to explain why so many physicians report finding it difficult to talk to parents about their child's weight. According to a 2005 study, only 12% of pediatricians admit to feeling effective about a child's weight problem during office visits, even if that problem is an obvious one. For many practitioners, there's a fear that not only are the parents unaware of the situation but also they will be angered or upset by the information. More worrisome is how the news will make the child feel, particularly during the emotional storms and ego swings...
...group of pediatric-obesity experts convened by the American Medical Association (AMA) and co-funded by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a report on childhood obesity, which included a strong argument that the language of weight gain had to change. A decade ago, kids whose body mass index (BMI) tracked at or above the 85th percentile for their age were dubbed "at risk of overweight." The new recommendations urge doctors to cut to the chase and simply call such children overweight. Similarly, a child with a BMI above...
...course, whether a child can--or, rather, should--diet is a more complex question. Most clinicians don't even like to use the word; instead, they talk about "lifestyle changes" and "weight-management protocols." Says nutritionist and family therapist Ellyn Satter of Madison, Wis., considered by many a pioneer in the field of child feeding: "Even the most conventional people will say, 'Don't put kids on diets,' but then they'll go on to talk about how you should reduce their sugar or fat intake. There's an awful lot of dieting in disguise...