Parents, Don’t Let Your Kids Grow Up Overweight

In a recent posting, I talked about the impact that parents have on their children’s health habits. An article in the USA Today, September 13th supports this point. “Obesity begins at home” is how the article begins. Keith Ayoob, registered dietician at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine is quoted in the article saying, “Parents are, hands down, the biggest influence on their kids. The need to be good role models, moms and dads may want their kids to eat fruits and vegetables, but they are not eating enough themselves. He went on to say that he had recently heard this quote “what you say will speak to your kids, what you do will scream to them”.

-from Bob Wright

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