Troubles for Overweight Kids
March 31, 2015
A decade ago, Issues featured an article based on a landmark report by the Institute of Medicine that described the growing obesity epidemic among U.S. children and proposed comprehensive remedies. But two new scientific reports provide glimpses of challenges that remain—one describing what some observer see as limited progress in changing how foods are advertised to children, and another revealing that nearly all parents think their overweight children look “just right.”