Obesity Isn't Genetic, It's Taught: Kids Learn Food Habits From Parents
By Mike Adams, November 4, 2008 | Key concepts: Children's health, Food choice and Eating habits
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It's common sense: Children tend to eat what their parents eat. That's why obese children often have obese parents. It's not genetic, it's just that the kids learned to eat the same obesity-promoting foods their parents ate: Sodas, dairy products, processed meats, junk foods, sugary foods and other similar items. These new findings, reported in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, show that children as young as two years old directly mimic their parents on food choice. Watch what you eat, parents... Because your toddlers are definitely watching!
From Reuters.com: "The data suggest that children begin to assimilate and mimic their parents' food choices at a very young age, even before they are able to fully appreciate the implications of these choices," write the researchers, led by Dr. Lisa A. Sutherland of Dartmouth Medical School in Lebanon, New Hampshire.... more
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