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Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology 2018

15 Editor’s Choice

Seeing is believing: childhood overweight and obesity

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15.1 Development of the MapMe intervention body image scales of known weight status for 4-5 and 10-11 year old children

AR Jones , MJ Tovee , LR Cutler , KN Parkinson , LJ Ells , V Araujo-Soares , MS Pearce , KD Mann , D Scott , JM Harris , AJ Adamson

To read the full abstract: J Public Health (Oxf) 2017:1-9Our efforts to control overweight and obesity in children are severely hampered because most of their parents (and indeed most of their health professionals!) cannot visually recognise an obese child, let alone one who is overweight. This is particularly difficult at around the ages 4-6 years old because this coincides with the BMI n...