Healthcare Triage: Kids Have a Hard Time Perceiving Obesity

Aaron Carroll

September 5, 2015

If we want kids to make better decisions about their health, it helps if they understand if they’re unhealthy to begin with. When it comes to weight, that’s unfortunately not the case. This is Healthcare Triage News.

For those of you who want to read more, here’s the study: “Accuracy of Weight Perceptions in a Nationally Representative Cohort of US 8th Grade Adolescents“.

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Aaron Carroll

Aaron E. Carroll, MD, MS is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist and tweets at @aaronecarroll. He is the Chief Health Officer at Indiana University. He is also a Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Dean for Research Mentoring at the Indiana University School of Medicine. In addition to contributing regularly to The New York Times and the Atlantic, he is the author of four books, most recently The Bad Food Bible.

Healthcare Triage: Kids Have a Hard Time Perceiving Obesity

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