It’s all our fault anyhow
Monday, June 12th, 2006Strict parenting may produce overweight kids TUESDAY, June 6 (HealthDay News) — 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. (more…)