Obesity Patterns Link Parents, Children

"They say insanity is a disease that you catch from your children. On the other hand, evidence suggests that obesity may be a disease that kids can catch from their parents. This from a study of more than 200 families conducted by the UK’s Peninsula Medical School, which suggests a link between obese moms and their obese daughters, and likewise between obese fathers and sons. In fact, the data shows that an obese mother is 10 times more likely to have an obese daughter, and that that an obese father is six times more likely to have an obese son. Oddly, children of the opposite sex were not affected – that is, most obese moms in the study had normal-weight sons, and likewise for obese dads and their daughters."


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