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Friday, January 30, 2009

Overweight Parents Have Overweight Children

Still another study, this time from Greece, finds that overweight parents have overweight children.

Researchers from Harokopio University in Athens collected weight and height statistics on over 2,300 preschoolers and their parents. If a child had one obese parent, that doubled his risk of being overweight compared to children of normal-weight parents. Children with two obese parents had a more than doubled risk.

This study, published in the journal BioMedicine Central Public Health, also found that 32% of Greek children were overweight. Researchers expected that percentage to be about 20%.

Labels: genetics, parents, role_models

Posted By: Aspen Education Group