Title: Study reveals parents' poor eating habits are to blame for childhood obesity, NOT fast food | Daily Mail Online
Headings: Study reveals parents' poor eating habits are to blame for childhood obesity, NOT fast food
Study reveals parents' poor eating habits are to blame for childhood obesity, NOT fast food
Not only are these bad habits observed at home, they are enforced in schools that lack healthy food options.
Childhood obesity is on the rise and parents are the ones to blame
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Content: Eating fast foods is just one behavior that results from those bad habits. Just because children who eat more fast food are the most likely to become obese does not prove that calories from fast foods bear the brunt of the blame.' The study observed data collected from the National Health and Nutrition Survey between 2007 and 2010. Researchers looked at the diets of 4,466 children aged 2-18. They looked at whether they ate at fast food restaurants or if they ate somewhere else. The children were then placed in groups based on how much calorie intake they consumed from fast food restaurants. 50 per cent of the children were non consumers of fast food. 40 per cent were low consumers who gained 30 per cent of their calorie intake from fast foods. 10 per cent of the children were high consumers who gained more than 30 per cent of their calories from fast food. +5
The study was lead by Barry Popkin, the the W.R Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Nutrition at UNC's Gillings School of Public Health
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Kids learn from their parents: