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...these things - and do them right - and the national obesity epidemic just might be brought under control before some kids struggling with their weight today even reach middle age. "If we got this way over the last 30 years," says Galson, "it's not going to take us centuries to get back. We could reverse things at the same speed or even faster." Americans will continue to love good food; the trick will be to learn to love good health even more...
...tall--and Jo worries about obesity all the time. She worries about the health consequences of Renee's weighing too much, the ones she has experienced throughout her own life. She worries about her daughter's being teased or ostracized on account of her weight, just as Jo was teased and ostracized as a child. And she worries that she's not doing enough--or that she's doing too much--to change things, as she tries to avoid the mistakes she feels her parents made during her childhood. Most of all, Jo worries about losing sight of Renee amid...
...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...