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Becky Cohn has worried about her daughter's weight since she was a toddler. Molly would eat "anything and everything," her mother says. "She would eat salads, but she would want three salads. She would eat broccoli but want seconds." The child was completely unlike her older siblings that way - and once she hit school age, Mom felt powerless to control the problem. "She'd go to school and eat her lunch and everyone else's," Cohn says. "I went to the pediatrician and said, 'I feel like I'm watching my daughter drown.'" Molly was nevertheless physically active...
...national poll from C.S. Mott Children's Hospital at the University of Michigan asked parents to report their oldest child's weight and height and then gauge whether he or she was a healthy size. "About 40% of parents of obese children ages 6 to 11 perceived their children's weight status to be 'about the right weight,'" says Matthew Davis, the University of Michigan pediatrician who directed the poll. A further 8% believed their child was actually underweight. "It's almost as if parents don't know what obese looks like in that school-age group," Davis says...
Adding to the quandary, doctors may be reluctant to raise the issue in the first place. Checkups are typically too brief to allow a doctor to broach the topic tactfully and work out a detailed, practical weight-loss plan. Some doctors fear they will worsen the problem by embarrassing the child and instilling shame instead of empowering him or her to get healthy. And doctors worry about turning off Mom and Dad as well. "Every parent feels guilty that their child has a weight problem," says David Ludwig, the director of the Optimal Weight for Life Program at Children...
...viewing and higher blood-pressure readings, it did not measure whether children developed hypertension. However, in previous studies involving the same group of children, whom he and the other scientists have been studying for four years, about 20% of the children had developed prehypertension or hypertension - often because of weight gain...
...December 2008. Kirill toured holy sites across the country, met with political leaders and gave an interview on national television, all with the insistence that his visit had no political agenda. But some observers are skeptical, saying the patriarch was actually in the country to throw spiritual weight behind the Kremlin's attempts to halt Ukraine's move toward Europe and keep it within Russia's sphere of influence. "We've seen more of a Russian state official than a religious figure," says Olexandr Paliy, a historian at the Institute of Foreign Policy at the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs...