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Prudent_Cat_7651 t1_j1mkeoh wrote

You guys need to go back to the drawing board on that one

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PoopIsAlwaysSunny t1_j1nmyb8 wrote

Yeah. Even if there aren’t direct health effects of being morbidly obese (unlikely), the social and mood effects of not being able to participate in common childhood activities (like sports, or just regular play) seems like it would have a huge effect

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Prudent_Cat_7651 t1_j1nn3u7 wrote

I’m a father with a child that deals with weight issues because of medications he has to take. I see the effect it has in his behaviors. Expand your research some parents like to lie to think there children don’t have problems.

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Iamjimmym t1_j1oba5x wrote

I have two kids - both eat roughly exactly the same. One is a physical powerhouse, lithe and acrobatic. The younger is heavier, physically denser, and has a tougher time keeping up. They’re less than a year apart, same mom and dad, and the youngest is half an inch shorter and outweighs his older brother by.. 15-20 lbs? It definitely has an effect.

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Prudent_Cat_7651 t1_j1oc3cu wrote

Yeah my other son is also the opposite he’s 4 years younger and I have seen a complete difference in how they are treated. Also the older one has a therapist he has talked to her a lot about it all.

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Iamjimmym t1_j1oc9o9 wrote

Even just the way my own parents treat them differently is depressing for me. Reminds me of childhood. Ugh. Now I’m gonna have to have another talk with them about this. Glad it came up, but ugh.

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Prudent_Cat_7651 t1_j1ogl0x wrote

100% I always try to talk to the grandparents as I’m trying to work as a team instead of coming at them like they are doing something wrong. An argument never helps a child everyone has to be on the same page.

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downloweast t1_j1qg1ra wrote

It wasn’t true in school and it’s not true in society. Look, loosing weight is hard, I know I did it many times before I got it right, but you need to stop trying to say that being over weight is ok. It will shorten your life and your quality of life.

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hilfigertout t1_j1n1h53 wrote

Why? This result may not line up with what you agree with, but what did this study do wrong?

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esperind t1_j1n8f06 wrote

because most other studies suggest the opposite, and it says as much in the first couple paragraphs of the article,

>Children with obesity are more likely to be diagnosed with depression,
anxiety, or attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). But the
nature of the relationship between obesity and these mental health
conditions is not clear. Obesity might contribute to mental health
symptoms, or vice versa.

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hilfigertout t1_j1n9jmf wrote

Good comments. Contradicting current research is always a red flag.

The paper does not dispute that children with obesity are more likely to be diagnosed with depression, though. That correlation is clear. The conclusion seemed to focus more on the causation aspect, suggesting that underlying environmental factors influence both mental health issues and obesity in a population. From the editor's notes:

> the study finds that previous estimates of the effect of BMI on childhood emotional and behavioural symptoms may have been overestimated due to confounding with the environment. Larger samples will be needed to determine whether there is a causal effect of BMI on childhood emotional or behavioural problems, and what size it is.

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Psychomadeye t1_j1pcf45 wrote

If you're smaller than other studies and have a result that's contrary to other current research, you've got to look at other variables pretty hard. If that's the data you have, then that's the data you have, but you've gotta explain why your study is getting different results. You should be saying, BMI correlates poorly to those outcomes in XYZ situation.

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hilfigertout t1_j1pnscw wrote

In the actual study they do exactly that.

The headline isn't doing any favors though.

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