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: was lead by Barry Popkin, the W.R Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Nutrition at UNC's Gillings School of Public Health and was publsihed in the latest issue of The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Researchers for the study found that while fast food does contribute to unhealthy children, the main culprit for childhood obesity is learned dietary habits children observe at home. Science Daily reports that the poor eating patterns consist of drinking sugary drinks and eating processed foods as oppose to eating a diet rich in fruits and vegetables. +5
Even though fast food is unhealthy and contributes to childhood obesity, eating healthy is a learned skill that starts in the home
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The UNC School of Public health researched the relationship between a fast food diet and calories gained elsewhere and found that children also eat unhealthily at school and at home
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Not only are these bad habits observed at home, they are enforced in schools that lack healthy food options. 'This is really what is driving children's obesity,' said Popkin. ' 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.