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[QUOTE][URL="http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&where1=NEW YORK&sty=h&form=msdate"]NEW YORK[/URL] — Toddlers who have poor relationships with their moms are more likely to pack on extra pounds as they grow up, a new U.S. study shows.
Tracking nearly 1,000 kids into their teens, researchers found more than a quarter of those who scored lowest on mother-child relationship tests as toddlers went on to become obese at age 15.
By contrast, only 13 percent of the children who had a good relationship with their mother became obese.
While that doesn't prove cause and effect, researchers say other work has shown links between children's emotional and intellectual development and how they interact with their mother at a young age.
According to Sarah E. Anderson, who worked on the new study, it's possible that a stressful childhood could make a lasting impression on kids' brains.
"There is an overlap in the brain between the areas that govern stress and energy balance," said Anderson, of the Ohio State University College of Public Health in Columbus. "This stress response could be related to obesity through appetite regulation."
Dr. David Gozal, a pediatrician not involved in the new work, agreed. But he said unhealthy food and a lack of physical activity and sleep are likely to play a bigger role.
Still, he said, early childhood stress is known to take a toll later in life -- both via genetic reprogramming and behavioral changes -- and a poor mother-child relationship could be part of the equation.
"What you see in adulthood is obviously the cumulative effect of what has happened earlier in life," Gozal, physician-in-chief at the Comer Children's Hospital in Chicago, told Reuters Health.
Anderson's findings, published in the journal Pediatrics, are based on 977 kids who were videotaped while playing with their mother at about one, two and three years of age.
Researchers then assessed the toddler's relationship to their moms based on the mother's ability to recognize her child's emotional state and respond with warmth as well as the child's tendency to freely explore its environment, a measure of "attachment security."
A quarter of the toddlers had a "poor-quality" relationship to their mothers, whereas 22 percent scored perfect at each session. At 15 years, 26 percent of the kids with relationship trouble were obese -- twice as many as those without such problems.
However, the gap narrowed as more factors were taken into account, including maternal education and household income.
Today, 17 percent of all children and adolescents in the U.S. are obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Even if the epidemic is fueled by poor relationships at home, there is no point in chiding mothers, Anderson said.
"Blaming parents is not likely to solve anything," she told Reuters Health. "It's important to recognize that there are many competing demands on parents."
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in other words 250 children per 1,000 are obese. old news america
this just in; absentee mother discovers her lifetime supply of funfetti is missing
This seems like common sense.
Kids eat what their parents give them.
Kid has a shitty relationship with mom,
mom doesn't provide the kind of dietary guidance to give child a proper foundation for a healthy diet,
kid becomes a fatass.
Sad but it makes sense and I don't think a study needed to be done to decide this.
High metabolism and good parent relationship master race.
And still, nothing will be done about improving parent-child relationships in our society.
[QUOTE=Daemonshadow;33929237]And still, nothing will be done about improving parent-child relationships in our society.[/QUOTE]
There is very little incentive to be a good parent and very little punishment for being a bad one
[QUOTE=StormHammer;33929177]This seems like common sense.
Kids eat what their parents give them.
Kid has a shitty relationship with mom,
mom doesn't provide the kind of dietary guidance to give child a proper foundation for a healthy diet,
kid becomes a fatass.
Sad but it makes sense and I don't think a study needed to be done to decide this.[/QUOTE]
Decide? They didn't decide a link existed, they observed it.
Having a poor relationship with your mother can lead to low self-esteem, which can cause eating disorders.
[QUOTE=_Twitch_;33929620]Having a poor relationship with your mother can lead to low self-esteem, which can cause eating disorders.[/QUOTE]
Having a bad relationship with your parents can basically fuck over every single aspect of your future life
it's funny cause your childhood is the most important stage for your psychological growth, but you only figure things out when it finishes
I [I]hate[/I] how've we've developed a mentality that we shouldn't tell people how to parent their children. How else do they expect to learn how to raise their kids?
That class where we had to take care of the fake baby would be far more useful if they taught actual parenting instead.
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That class where we had to take care of the fake baby would be far more useful if they taught actual parenting instead.[/QUOTE]
But knowing how not to drop an egg with a face drawn on it is an important life skill!
[QUOTE=_Twitch_;33929620]Having a poor relationship with your mother can lead to low self-esteem, which can cause eating disorders.[/QUOTE]
Oh thanks for fucking telling me now
I've always wondered how better off I would be if my childhood was all sunshine and rainbows.
[QUOTE=Chicken_Chaser;33933328]I've always wondered how better off I would be if my childhood was all sunshine and rainbows.[/QUOTE]
You wouldn't be posting here! :v:
Unfortunately I can't find the full paper on Pubmed, just the abstract. We don't know how much of the article is fabricated, which media reports of medical findings almost invariably are.
[QUOTE=Rubs10;33930787]I [I]hate[/I] how've we've developed a mentality that we shouldn't tell people how to parent their children. How else do they expect to learn how to raise their kids?
That class where we had to take care of the fake baby would be far more useful if they taught actual parenting instead.[/QUOTE]
Orphanages are raising a bit of spare cash by hiring out their orphans to elementary schools
[QUOTE=Chicken_Chaser;33933328]I've always wondered how better off I would be if my childhood was all sunshine and rainbows.[/QUOTE]
You'd probably have a nasty sunburn and it would have been humid all the time
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