Thursday, February 9, 2012

3 Family Habits May Slash Childhood Obesity Risk

(MedPage Today) UPDATED 2010-02-08
Three traditional family habits may almost halve your child's risk of becoming obese, researchers say. Eating dinner as a family five times per week, limiting TV time to less than two hours per day, and making sure a child gets more than 10.5 hours of sleep per night is associated with a 40 percent reduction in risk. The study's lead researcher says each habit appeared to reduce a child's risk, but it was the combination of behaviors that proved most dramatic.
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