I thought BMI was an airline...

According to yet another report about flabby kids "research shows that most parents of overweight or obese children think that their child is a healthy weight". I'm relatively new to this parenting lark and I can be (as my partner often points out) rather unobservant at times, but I can't imagine being so distracted that I wouldn't notice if my own child was becoming clinically obese. It makes you wonder what goes through some people's minds...

We never thought of our Johnny as "very overweight". He did spend a lot of time his bedroom, mind ... never came out, come to think of it . We thought he was in there playing computer games or something, like teenagers do, 'til; the health visitor told us he'd too got big to squeeze out though the door...

Astonishing.

My radical two step obesity plan would be:

1) Occasionally look at your child.

2) If the child looks huge, feed them on something which isn't sugary crap and take them for a walk occasionally. Or, better still, get them hopping around like maniacs in a dark, sweaty, airless club to some old trance track, played at a volume of 11 or so. This one would do splendidly - sorry about the cheesy vid. Heads up to Wallace and Gromit - the moon isn't really made of cheese, but Ecuador, apparently, is.