{"id":243186454,"date":"2012-09-15T15:47:34","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T15:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=243186454"},"modified":"2012-09-15T15:47:34","modified_gmt":"2012-09-15T15:47:34","slug":"parents-remain-in-denial-about-childhood-obesity-epidemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=243186454","title":{"rendered":"Parents Remain In Denial About Childhood Obesity Epidemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: The first step in solving a problem is recognizing there is a problem and I have seen far too many unconcerned parents about their children&#8217;s weight.]<br \/>\n*****************************************************************************<br \/>\nATLANTA, Sept. 5, 2012 \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; A behavioral insights research study commissioned by Children&#8217;s Healthcare of Atlanta suggests that while the majority of Georgia parents recognized the severity of the childhood obesity epidemic in the state, parents of overweight and obese children still don&#8217;t believe the issue affects their family. With Georgia having the second highest childhood obesity rate in the country, Children&#8217;s has kicked off the latest initiative of its Strong4Life movement called &quot;The Talk&quot; to jump-start a personalization of the issue for these parents.<br \/>\nWith childhood obesity reaching epidemic rates in the country, it&#8217;s not surprising that parents now fear The Talk about weight and body issues with their kids more than the talks about sex and drugs.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThe behavioral insights research study completed in February 2012 included surveys with 1,043 families with children 0 &#8211; 11 years old, representing a true cross-section of Georgia, including children classified as normal weight, overweight and obese (according to the CDC&#8217;s BMI classifications). From those families, 42 percent of families were identified with overweight or obese kids. Of those 42 percent of families&#8217; surveyed with overweight or obese children, 76 percent misclassified their children as either underweight or normal weight.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/parents-remain-in-denial-about-childhood-obesity-epidemic-168525386.html\">https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/parents-remain-in-denial-about-childhood-obesity-epidemic-168525386.html<\/a><br \/>\nvia CenterLines, the e-newsletter of the National Center for Bicycling &amp; Walking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: The first step in solving a problem is recognizing there is a problem and I have seen far too many unconcerned parents about their children&#8217;s weight.] ***************************************************************************** ATLANTA, Sept. 5, 2012 \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; A behavioral insights research study commissioned by Children&#8217;s Healthcare of Atlanta suggests that while the majority of Georgia parents recognized &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=243186454\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Parents Remain In Denial About Childhood Obesity Epidemic&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243186454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243186454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=243186454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243186454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243186454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243186454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243186454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}