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Overweight mom and watching too much tv linked to obesity
The CENTRE FOR EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING (Sun 07 Oct 2007 Byline: Talia Mana) writes new research suggests that if you want your children to be healthy weight, you need to cut the time the spend in front of the television, and being a boy helps, too. Children are at greater risk of obesity if they watch a lot of television, have an overweight mother, or are female according to recent research from the University of Auckland, New Zealand . The research shows that sedentary activity, such as watching a lot of television has a far greater impact on the percentage of body fat than expected. Interestingly, high levels of exercise or physical activity did not appear to protect against the risk of gaining weight. More importantly, children that showed higher a body fat percentage at age 3½ continued to be overweight at age 7 years suggesting that the children would grow up to be overweight adults. The study was published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood.
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