Childhood obesity can be caused by prenatal factors, includling the mother’s weight, says the new director of a major NIH study. – The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/to-deal-with-childhood-obesity-researchers-eye-prenatal-and-generational-factors/2017/08/11/bce79eb4-787e-11e7-9eac-d56bd5568db8_story.html?utm_term=.eb9bfbcce33a Although the public health community has been trying to address the childhood obesity epidemic for years, progress has been disappointing. Often, governments or schools will make a single policy change — more fruit in school lunches, no soda machines in parks — only to find no effect. [A widely held belief about childhood obesity that simply isn’t true] Read More …
