Parents' awareness of overweight in themselves and their children: cross sectional study within a cohort (EarlyBird 21)

摘要

Obesity is a serious public health concern. More than half of British adults are overweight, and obesity among preschool children has increased by an alarming 70% in the past generation. We aimed to explore parents' awareness of overweight and obesity in themselves and their children, and their degree of concern about weight Participants, methods, and results We studied 277 healthy randomly recruited children (mean age 7.4 years) and parents from the EarlyBird study. Overweight and obesity were defined as body mass index at least 25 and 30 in adults, and at least 91st and 98th centiles of the UK 1990 body mass index reference curves for children.