Onderzoek: Helft van alle ouders slaagt er niet in obesitas bij kinderen te herkennen.
28 April 2019
12:17
More than 50% of parents fail to recognise that their children may be seriously overweight – and many health professionals share this misperception, according to new research.
“Despite attempts to raise public awareness of the obesity problem, our findings indicate that underestimation of child higher weight status is very common,” said the project’s leader, Abrar Alshahrani, of Nottingham University.
The results, presented this weekend at the European Congress on Obesity in Glasgow, are alarming because there has been a more than ten-fold increase across the world in numbers of children and adolescents with obesity in the past 40 years.
