Parents often underestimate how fat their children are – but it seems family doctors do so as well. And turning a blind eye is not good for their health.
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Parents often underestimate how fat their children are – but it seems family doctors do so as well. And turning a blind eye is not good for their health.
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Doctors walk a difficult line as they try to discuss the fraught subject of weight without increasing the distress that many children already feel.
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The brains of overweight people look "'10 years older' than those of leaner peers, a study has found.
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More than 12,000 new cases of cancer every year can be attributed to the patient being overweight or obese, the biggest ever study of the links between body mass index and cancer has - New Zealand Herald
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Transcripts of patient visits show a striking difference in the way doctors talk to their obese patients and those of normal weight, Johns Hopkins researchers found.
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MEN are almost twice as likely as women to be overweight in Darebin, although more women identify as having a weight issue.
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The words fit and fat differ by just one letter, but most people see little resemblance between the two. If you're fit, you're obviously not fat, and if you're fat you couldn't
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The longest lived among us aren't necessarily those who are of normal weight, says a new study.
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In a 1991 study, the author found that females were less likely to receive support from their parents for college education if they were fatter than average. This effect is replicated for female undergraduates (n = 576); no effect emerged for males (n = 450). Controlling for income, ethnicity, family size, and number of children attending college did not change the results. The selection bias against fat women was strongest for daughters of political conservatives, a group previously found to endorse antifat attitudes. This suggests that parents' attitudes may lead to discrimination within families. To demonstrate that this may be due to parents' bias, data from a representative sample of high school seniors (n = 3,386) showed no association between politics, weight, and predictors of college attendance, including grade point average, self-rated intelligence and ability, college aspirations, and health. The evidence accumulates that parents are discriminating against their own heavyweight daughters.
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Fat Tax. Time to weigh in on a decision?
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THE nation's largest health survey has revealed rates of childhood obesity have plateaued, despite the emergence of what experts have labelled a "frightening public health crisis" of obesity among adults.
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The number of Australians who are overweight and obese has bulged over the past four years, government statistics show.
Australians are growing taller and heavier, with average height up 0.8 of a centimetre for men and 0.4 centimetres for women since 1995.
The average Australian man has gained 3.9 kilograms and the average Australian woman 4.1 kilograms over the same period.