Title: Study reveals parents' poor eating habits are to blame for childhood obesity, NOT fast food | Daily Mail Online
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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: Study reveals parents' poor eating habits are to blame for childhood obesity, NOT fast food | Daily Mail Online
Study reveals parents' poor eating habits are to blame for childhood obesity, NOT fast food
A study conducted at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found that poor eating habits linked to obesity are learned in children's homes
Fast food does contribute to obesity as does diets low in vegetable and high in preservatives served at home and at schools
Some parents don't take the time to cook healthy meals for their children, and this leads to poor dietary decisions later in life
By Alexandra Klausner
Published: 20:13 EDT, 15 January 2014 | Updated: 08:37 EDT, 16 January 2014
Fast food is not to blame for childhood obesity, poor eating habits learned in children's home are, says a new study conducted by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The study entitled, 'The Association of Fast Food Consumption with Poor Dietary Outcomes and Obesity Among Children: is it The Fast Food of the Remainder of the Diet?' 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. '