Families whose children are overweight do not behave differently or have different attitudes toward food compared to families whose children are of normal weight, according to a study from the Food Marketing Institute.
- Researchers looked at five factors such as how much the children influence food purchases, how often the children go shopping for food with their parents, how often children play outside, and how important it was to parents that their children stay slim.
- There were few differences between families with overweight children and families with normal weight children.
- One was that the overweight group tended to make children "clean their plates" and have more rules around eating.
- A slightly higher percentage of normal weight children play outside more often than the overweight group.
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Posted By: Jane St. Clair
