Breakfast cuts obesity
October 18th 2008
A study of 15,000 children by London University suggests that parents can reduce children’s risk of becoming obese by making them eat breakfast.
It was found that 5-year-olds who are not given a bowl of cereal or slice of toast in the morning are twice as likely to be obese as those who eat breakfast.The study found that 1 in 5 children to be overweight or obese upon starting school.
Obese children were more likely to have missed breakfast and those with jobless parents were three times more likely to have missed it. Professor Heather Joshi said children who missed breakfast were “more likely to get hungry before lunch and snack on foods that are high in fat and sugar”. Just 3% of children of graduate mothers were obese, compared with 8% whose mothers had no qualifications. 11 percent of obese mothers had obese daughters compared to 0.5 per cent of underweight mothers.
(Express, p35, 4 col.”;Sunp37)
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