background: to examine macronutrient and micronutrient intake of adolescent girls of tehran, capital of iran to discover any malnutrition in relation to weight status and dieting. methods: a cross-sectional study was conducted. four hundred 11- to 17-year-old students were selected by multistage clus­ter sampling from secondary and high schools of tehran. the information about dietary intakes w...

INTRODUCTION Self-perceived weight status among adolescents has been associated with weight-control behaviors. However, this relationship varies across weight status. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to examine the effect of self-perceived weight status on dieting and unhealthy weight-control behaviors among Spanish male adolescents, across weight status. METHOD Participants were 597 Sp...

Perception of body-weight status is an important determinant of weight-related behaviours and may affect the burden of weight disturbances as a public-health problem. No study has assessed self-perception of the weight status regarding body-fat distribution among health workers to date. The aim of this study was to evaluate the association of the perception of weight and health status among 542...

INTRODUCTION The objective of our study was to describe perceptions of child weight status among US children, adolescents, and their parents and to examine the extent to which accurate personal and parental perception of weight status is associated with self-reported attempted weight loss. METHODS Our study sample comprised 2,613 participants aged 8 to 15 years in the National Health and Nutr...

OBJECTIVES Body-weight norms may explain why personal evaluations of weight status are often inaccurate. Here, we tested a 'norm comparison' explanation of weight status perceptions, whereby personal evaluations of weight status are biased by perceived body-weight norms. METHODS Study 1 examined whether perceptions of how one's own body weight compares to an average person predict personal ev...

BACKGROUND Parents often fail to correctly perceive their children's weight status, but no studies have examined the association between parental weight status perception and longitudinal BMIz change (BMI standardized to a reference population) at various ages. We investigated whether parents are able to accurately perceive their child's weight status at age 5. We also investigated predictors o...