Assessing Your Child’s Weight Issue

It is often difficult for parents to hear about their child’s weight issue. If your child has a weight issue, you likely haven’t heard about it from the pediatrician. Studies show that only 36.7% of pediatricians ever talk to the parents of overweight children about the child’s weight.

You may not recognize the issue, either. Other studies show that only 10% of parents with an obese child are “very concerned”, and about 40% of those parents described their child as “about the right weight”.

Worse, few parents appreciate the medical, social, emotional, and financial toll weight issues have on their children.

The good news—even modest weight loss can have a dramatic impact on your child. And solutions, like Wellspring, are available.

BMI Calculator: enter your child’s gender, age, height, and weight to understand the weight issue.

Weight Issue Calculator: physical, social, emotional, and financial impact of weight.

Please spend a few minutes assessing your child’s weight and learning about what benefits weight loss might bring. Or call Admissions Counselors at 866.364.0808 to learn more about ways you can help your child lose weight.

Sources: Science Daily (Nov. 21, 2007); Washington Post, Tuesday, January 8, 2008; Page HE02;Cote (2004) International Journal for Quality Health Care 16:165-173