Mothers failing to see when children are obese: study

Mothers are failing to recognise that their children are overweight or obese, a new study has revealed.

Research conducted by the University of Limerick (UL) found only one in six mothers of obese children classified their child as moderately or very overweight.

The study by a multi-disciplinary research team at UL was published in the international journal Archives of Disease in Childhood. It reported on 7,655 mothers and their nine-year-old children using data from the study, Growing Up in Ireland.