Differences in the family and school scores were less pronounced between groups, and the only group from which the patients differed was the group with the highest HRQoL scores, namely the children with objective as well as perceived normal-weight.
We react not just to immediate perceived "normal" dangers, but to thoughts and memories.
Further, when a parent correctly perceives a normal weight range for an infant or child, they can implement measures to bring the infant into a normal range [ 28].
No mother perceived her child as either 'very underweight' or 'very overweight', so just three categories of perceived weight (underweight, normal weight, overweight) were used in all analyses.
This desire was the highest among those who perceived themselves to be overweight, although about one-third of those who perceived themselves to be of normal weight and about one-fifth of those who perceived themselves to be underweight also attempted to lose weight.
Low-SEP parents may perceive their girls as normal weight, although objectively they are overweight more often than what high-SEP parents perceive [ 48, 49].
Some individuals perceive themselves as being normal weight, despite having an excess body fat percentage (e.g., underestimate weight).
Thus, children who were of normal weight but perceived themselves to be overweight/obese were three times more likely to attempt weight loss compared with those who accurately perceived themselves as being of normal weight, while the odds of attempting weight loss were the highest for those who were overweight and perceived themselves to be so (AOR∼18).
The results for male educators shows that 85% (n = 47) of male educators in the normal weight category perceived their weight to be normal, while 15% (n = 8) thought that they were overweight/ obese.
Just one (<1%) of the underweight participants and 19% of normal weight participants perceived themselves to be overweight, compared with 70% of those who were overweight and 94% of those who were obese.
(Fox & Yamaguchi 1997, pg 38) In contrast negative attitudes to body change were mainly reported by women of normal weight who perceived their new pregnant shape as less physically attractive, uncontrollable, attention-provoking and limiting in respect to certain activities.
