Experts debate labeling Children Obese

Is it OK for doctors and parents to tell children and teens they're fat? That seems to be at the heart of a debate over whether to replace the fuzzy language favored by the U.S. government with the painful truth - telling kids if they're obese or overweight.

You have to read this article by the AP. For me it makes no sense at all... Obesity is a disease, and parents should take it seriously from day one. If you are obese, you are obese, period. The point is not letting your child go to that point. Now read this comment by Dr. Reginald Washington, a Denver pediatrician and co-chair of an American Academy of Pediatrics obesity task force: "Labeling a child obese might run the risk of making them angry, making the family angry" - What? I would rather say that we teach our children how to eat right and how not to become obese. I think Dr. Washington does not understand that it is more important to face the truth, so we can work on it, than just to hide it. When I was a child, I was just a few steps of becoming obese. I was always at the borderline. Thanks to my parents telling me I was in danger, and not hiding my condition, I managed over the years to deal with it.

This morning while dropping my kids at school, I coincidentally walked to a class room where a few 4 year old where having breakfast. To my surprise, two of them where eating a fatty McDonalds breakfast burgers, with fries. Well... there you go Mom and Dad.. where is your education? What is more important: To worry about "labeling" your childs condition, or to really take care of it?