Association Discovered Between Children’s BMI And Working Mothers
Childhood obesity in the United States has more than tripled in the past three decades, and prior research has linked maternal employment to children’s body mass index (BMI), a measure of their weight-for-height. A new study in the January/February issue of the journal Child Development has found that children’s BMI rose the more years their mothers worked over their children’s lifetimes…
February 7, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: children, diet, journal, linked-maternal, mothers, nutritional counseling, oncalldietitian.com, rose-the-more, the-journal, three-decades, united, united-states
