Children and their weight
...ian American, Hispanic, and others. All children were seen at the National Institutes of Health Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center (Bethesda, MD) to check medical history and a regular physical examination the children were measured on eating disorder pathology general psychopathology-depression and anxiety, and body composition. Parent also did a behavior test. Eating disorder pathology was a series of questions that are used on adults with eating disorder but modified to fit children and their capability to understand General Psychopathology, children did a depression self-rated inventor that gave a total score and 5 individual scores based on 5 different categories. Anxiety self measurement test was conducted to measure he trait anxiety development. Body composition test was performed to measure height, body fat mass, Lean body mass, puberty stages, and testicular volume. Results: The study showed that 82 children were overweight, 80 were normal weight, and 2 did not differ. The overweight an normal children wee s...