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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you sure he's as skinny as you make out because something must have triggered those parents to be making those remarks? When he's swimming what are the aesthetic signals for obesity? I.e does he have a belly? Does he have chubby legs and face? Can he fit into the right clothes for his age? You say it's worse when he sits down - what do you mean by this? If you let us know this it will be much easier for us to give you our opinion. However if the doctor is not concerned I wouldn't get overly worked up about it![/quote]

Yes as I have mentioned he does have a fat belly, but the doctor said it was [b]common for fat in men to build up around the belly more than anywhere else[/b]. His legs are bigger but proportionate to his size. This is the same with his face. And when he sits down you can see his belly fat much clearer because it all kind of clumps together and it comes over the top of his speedo trunks and sort of covers them a bit. And yes it is difficult to buy clothes because he is such an awkward size. For instance the speedo trunks are the only ones he can comfortably fit into that are a reasonable length (although for speedos they're pretty much all the same). School clothes are similar because he had a slightly bigger waist.[/quote]

It doesn't matter where the fat is, it's still fat.  It's not common for men at a healthy weight to have belly fat.  Either your doctor was just trying to avoid the real conversation or you're just hearing the parts that you want to hear.

Swimming once or twice a week isn't enough.  Kids need an hour of daily exercise. [/quote]

I would add that in my experience of seeing boys that age (I have one), it's not common at all to see belly fat.  Most of them are skinny rails.  More so than the girls.  I have heard of girls right before puberty putting on some extra weight, but an 8 year old boy?  [/quote]

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