Sunday, July 02, 2006

Strict Parenting Can Produce Overweight Kids

Your parenting style affects your child's weight and whether she will be overweight by first grade, a new study found.

"Children of authoritarian parents had five times the risk of being overweight compared to children of authoritative [a more diplomatic style] mothers," said Dr. Kyung Rhee, a clinical instructor and research fellow at Boston University School of Medicine and the study's lead author. Read on ...

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