Study: Doctors aren't Honest about Overweight Kids
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Updated: 3:32 AM Dec 6, 2011
Study: Doctors aren't Honest about Overweight Kids
Doctors may need to do a better job communicating with the parents of overweight children.
Posted: 3:27 AM Dec 6, 2011
Reporter: CBS
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A new University of North Carolina study finds that only 22 percent of parents remember a doctor saying their child was overweight.

Even among parents of very obese children only 58 percent recall a doctor telling them.


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