| The majority of caregivers acknowledge child overweight status though not its consequences |
I worry that she will become obese; I don’t want to see her fat, her father is chubby and his family is chubby, well, all of them. I don’t want to see her that way. It makes me afraid she’ll have some [health] problem; her paternal grandmother has asthma.
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| Many caregivers consider limiting sweets and sugar-sweetened beverages to be desirable |
[Candy] in great quantities… principally they damage the teeth; more than anything that’s why I limit them, because of their teeth… [Candy and sweets] are tasty, but they’re junk foods, in addition to skimping on money…
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| Many caregivers are aware of the benefits of physical activity and have sought out structured and unstructured ways to maintain an active lifestyle |
The boy likes it a lot, kicking a ball around, running, and my husband likes exercising, and then he [the son] imitates us doing sit ups and abdominal work outs or running. I would like him to swim, to exercise and to learn something for when he’s older, or it could be dance, or gymnastics. Well, sometimes he goes out to play on the patio, he runs and runs or rides his tricycle.
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| Many caregivers are aware that television viewing is a sedentary activity that exposes their children to advertising |
Well, yes they get a lot fatter and the television influences their consumption a lot, because at times she’s really calm and she’ll just begin to watch and right away she wants it, because if she doesn’t see it she doesn’t ask us for it, in other words, she says ‘oh I want to snack on this.’ I feel it does him good to exercise, run, well at the very least he isn’t sitting or watching television.
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