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Originally posted by carnation
I think that most parents won't care about the BMI. If their kid is overweight, they either know it already or they're so deep in denial that they'll ignore it. I can't think of one set of parents who would go, "Whoa! What a shock! Could my kid be overweight?" if they got a card that had a high BMI.
Sad, but true.
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This is what you'd hope, but it's not true. There have been plenty of studies done that show that many, many people who are overweight or even obese think that they're perfectly healthy, and that often this carries on down to their kids (people who are overweight and don't realize it usually also don't realize it when their kids are overweight). They just look around and think, "Oh, he looks like half the other kids in his class, so he must be normal," not realizing that half the other kids in his class are overweight too.