The environment in which children are raised influences, they say, your body weight

(www.neomundo.com.ar)-_La_obesidad_infantil_puede_prevenir_se.) Observing the behavior of the mother and his own weight at the time of giving birth is possible to detect the risk of developing obesity in kids for two years and half.

Laura Pryor, the specialist in preventive medicine of the Université de Montréal (Canada) which conducted the investigation, argued that the environment surrounding children strongly influences the chances of suffering an obesity in the future. “It is necessary to intervene early way in families at risk for weight problems and the transmission of the poor health of one generation to another,” he warns.

The World Health Organization (who) estimated that in 2010 about 43 million children under five years they were suffering from overweight. Children with this condition are at high risk of becoming obese adults, thereby increasing the risk of having a disability or premature death. Currently, 10% of the adult population suffers from obesity.

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Pryor team worked with 1,957 guys whose height and weight had been carefully measured as they were five months old until the age of eight. With this information, they calculated the body mass index (BMI), a measure that takes into account the height and weight to determine if a person suffers an overweight or obese.

Pryor noted that boys have evolved differently from birth: a group maintained a BMI low but stable, others maintained a moderate BMI and the rest went up weight to the point that increased your BMI. “We found that the careers of the three groups was similar until the boys played two and a half years. “At this point began to increase the IMC of some of them”, he explains.

To search for the causes of this phenomenon, the specialist noted that the guys that started to clog up so early in his life had mothers with a high weight or they smoked. In fact, these two aspects of the mother’s health had much more influence than the weight of the boys at birth.

Pryor recognizes that “behavior is very difficult to change and is influenced by a complex of factors of the environment network”, but expected the results of its study to help mothers to prevent obesity in your children.

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