Calling kids 'overweight' is fat-shaming, experts say

Calling kids 'overweight' is fat-shaming, experts say Labelling children as 'overweight' is fat shaming and can do more harm than good, a study suggests.

The National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) causes children anxiety and embarrassment at weigh-ins and often leads to teasing, researchers found.

Instead of helping children to lose weight, it has the potential cause eating disorders and unhealthy dieting behaviours that are 'far more dangerous than the weight itself'. The Daily Mail

See also:

• Weighing up the future: a meta-ethnography of household perceptions of the National Child Measurement Programme in England (open access) Critical Public Health