Children's Health and Fitness - Len Saunders

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Childhood obesity is on the rise in China, and children and parents there tend to underestimate body weight, according to Penn State health policy researchers.

?Because many overweight Chinese children underestimate their weight, they are less likely to do anything to improve their diet or exercise patterns,? said Nengliang Yao, graduate student in health policy and administration. ?If they don?t make changes, they are likely to be obese and have a lot of health problems in the future ? as we often see in the United States already.?

Children between the ages of 6 and 18, living in nine different provinces in China, had their height and weight measured and body mass index (BMI) calculated as part of the 2006 China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS). The children and their mothers were separately asked to indicate whether they thought the child was underweight, normal weight or overweight.

The researchers looked at data from the CHNS for 176 overweight Chinese children and found that 69 percent of these children underestimated their own weight. Mothers were even more likely to underestimate the weight of their children, with 72 percent of the mothers rating their overweight children as normal or underweight, Yao reported in a recent issue of the World Journal of Pediatrics.

If a mother?s BMI was lower, she was less likely to recognize her own child as overweight than a mother with a higher BMI. The researchers suggest that overweight mothers may have a better understanding of what ?overweight? means from personal experience.

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