Dunno about this one, folks. My mom's side is a family prone to short, thick necks even without an extra ounce of body fat. Although the same can be said about them and thick-waistedness -- no hour glass figures but no extra body fat either for many of them.

I always hated the required but unattainable for me 36-24-36 measurements of the 1960s. I thought I was fat because I couldn't wear fitted waist styles unless I went to a larger size than I normally wore. (Nor could I hit either 36; went in the other direction with those.) I was never a Twiggy type but a size 8 was, and is, pretty good. But it took me years to come to that conclusion.

Let's spend less time and effort targeting supposedly tell-tale body parts and more time making sure that our children eat a sensible diet and get plenty of exercise.

When we go to mall to buy pants, we determine if the pants will fit by using our neck, we hold the waist band of the pant, wrap it around our neck, if the size is exact, it fit, it it come short, the waist size too small, if it end up with extra, the size is bigger.

Somehow the neck thickness correspond to your waistline, no matter how old you grow, or if you gain weight, the neck reflect your waist size.

Also we noticed that a child with shorter neck will grow up probably over weight.

This is just ridiculous. This holds true maybe for white or asian kids, but throw any minority in their genetics, and it probably will be incorrect.

I'm 5'4", female, half white, half Cherokee, and I have a neck of 15 inches. According to that alone I would be considered overweight, and yes, while I am according to the BMI, body fat percentage wise I'm at 17%, and I weigh 175 pounds.

It all depends on your bone structure and muscle mass. I just happen to have a thick muscly neck to go with my thick muscly frame.

This is BS. Just saying. I mean really, people come in all shapes and sizes and the thickness of your neck doesn't prove that you are over/under/at the right weight.

And what group of people have the largest necks -- football players!!!!

I used to tape people in the Army. Fat waist and skinny neck equals high fat percentage. You actually want to have a football player type neck, not a skinny neck. Body fat percentage is the difference between your waist and neck measurements. ( waist measurement minus neck measurement equals body fat for males.)

a child who is fat is fat has nothing to do with neck sizes, most likely it was cause by life style of the child and who does the child typically follow in their lifestyle could it be their parents? the ones that are too busy to take the time to play with the child , go hiking, play a outdoor sport, go fishing, anything besides sit at the computer. all day long or tv. the parents should mke it a point early in the childs life to be active even if just for a few minutes a day.I just got back from vacation in Australia and while they don't have as much problem with overweight children as we do I saw far too many children with cell phones these were kids on vacation with parents but they were not taking part in the vacation they were talking on there D*mm cell phones.

It has nothing to do with neck size, it has to do with life style.

mark

How about measuring your child's obesity by how fat & ladry their ass is. Pretty simple. Who the hell writes these dumb articles and wastes money on such studies?