Overweight increases in children of working mothers

• April 25, 2024

According to the newspaper, Child Development, the situation of being a mother and spending hours working, is linked to an increase in Body Mass Index (IMC) of their children.

About, Taryn Morrissey , responsible for research and public policy and administration in the American University, affirmed: "It is not something casual, it is an association. Nobody discovered that it is a cause of childhood obesity , but we found a statistically significant growth in the Body Mass Index of children, linked to maternal employment. "

Morrissey and his co-authors observed the increase in BMI of 900 children. They found that in the third grade of primary school, there is a ratio of approximately 400 grams more for every 6 months the child's mother worked: "The weight increase was cumulative and the relationship became stronger as the child entered the fifth and sixth grade, the solution is not for mothers to stop working. childhood obesity it would not disappear. "

According to experts, there may be several factors that explain the relationship between the mother's employment and the children's BMI. Working mothers may be under pressure, forcing them to resort constantly to restaurants and fast food.

With information from CNN.com  

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