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STUDY:Fat People Fail To Recognise Abnormal Weight
If you are fat, chances are that you would underestimate the size of your kids and vice versa, says a study.
People of normal weight make this mistake less often.
“The failure to recognise abnormal weight occurs more often among overweight or obese mothers and children,” said lead author Tracy Paul from the Weill-Cornell Medical College in the US.
“Children of obese mothers often also underestimate adult size, suggesting that tolerance of being overweight is common among children exposed to obese parents,” Paul added.
Many parents of obese children do not try to prevent their children from becoming obese because they simply fail to recognise abnormal weight.
The researcher queried 253 mothers and their children about their perceptions of what healthy and ideal body sizes are.
The researchers found that 71.4 percent of obese adults and 35.1 percent of overweight adults underestimated size, compared to 8.6 percent of people of normal weight.
Among overweight and obese children, 86.3 percent and 62.3 percent respectively think they weigh less than they actually do, versus 14.9 percent of children of normal weight.
Mothers of overweight children had a particularly poor showing.
Eighty percent of them underestimated their child’s weight, compared to 7.1 percent of mothers with normal weight children and 23.1 percent of mothers with obese offspring.
Children with obese mothers, too, found weight difficult to judge, with the vast majority of them incorrectly classifying an adult’s size.
“This is worrying, as flawed weight perception impedes one’s ability to recognise obesity and its risks as a personal health issue,” Paul noted.
The study appeared in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
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IF NOT
September 30, 2014 at 12:42 pm
obesity bamona kwati balalya bwino kanshi malwele.
tutu
September 30, 2014 at 1:58 pm
all fat pipo shud b killed!!! they gross(ba ninani),disgustin(irritatin(ba bunani),lazy(ba bunani),idiots(ba bunani)…mwebantu mwebamasele napapata mwintukana,ts jst my opinion…I hate fat pipo so much!!!
chiz~man
September 30, 2014 at 3:00 pm
Kkkkkkkk…hahahahah@tutu bwafya!!
kakolwe
September 30, 2014 at 3:59 pm
I feel pity for fat people but I looked, critically, in the full-length mirror & saw that I was slowly becoming one! Say what!!! Am now busy converting all fat to energy & muscle. No more ingestion of fat of any sort.
Trixy
September 30, 2014 at 4:16 pm
That’s the spirit!!! Fat should never be tolerated!!
Finally Revealed: How Nigeria’s Prophet T.B. Joshua Betrayed People’s Faith
September 30, 2014 at 4:16 pm
All that put their trust in men shall be disappointed.
Food for thought
September 30, 2014 at 4:27 pm
Mr so called FINALLY REVEALED… YOU’RE JUST AN INSTRUMENT OF SATAN… SHOUT AS LOUD AS YOU WANT TO BUT WE KNOW WHO’S GOING TO HAVE THE LAST LAUGH… REMEMBER YO OWN SAYING ‘HE WHO LAUGHS LAST DOES WHAT?’… STOP BEING USED BY SATAN COZ HE WILL DUMP YOU IN HELL
tutu
September 30, 2014 at 4:56 pm
I hate fat pipo so mch!!!!
tutu
September 30, 2014 at 5:01 pm
I have once googled this”how to kill fat pipo”guess w@ there where responses(a lot)to my question, so am nt the only1 who has thot abt this…blackracist chikala where are you?
mwansa
September 30, 2014 at 6:12 pm
whats not defined is the meaning of fat……many Zambians use the word fat for everyone above a certain weight.
I weigh 103kg, 1.7m tall can run for at least one hour none stop, can work out rigorously at a faster pace than many smaller weighing people, have blood pressure of a baby, yet many Zambians call me fat…….what does fat mean……Lost in translation.
I laugh when I see faces of smaller people at the gym looking comfortated that they will go faster than me at least…….just to be disappointed……
never judge a book by its cover….you will get shocked. No wonder we are required to look at others as being better than ourselves…….lest we just find that tutu is more dirty than those she/he deems fat and dirty………..
tutu
September 30, 2014 at 6:47 pm
@mwansa nimwebo tulelandapo batata,u ar fat and disgustin!!! mwilayumfwisha bwino,if I were u ngakale nayipaya