I’ve always been plagued by people saying that my son is too thin.  I’ve always told them that his weight is a perfect 50th percentile weight for his age — not too fat and not too thin.  But they don’t really believe me.  I guess that’s because people in our culture have always equated cute and healthy (malusog) as fat (mataba), especially with kids.

Anyway, I’ve done an article for this at thepoc.net.  Here it is:

The growing epidemic of fat kids

Photos: “Obesity in children” by Joe 13, c/o Flickr. Some Rights Reserved.

Tags: childhood obesity, fat kids