Spread Fat Daddy Bigger Than Mother to Child

Spread Fat Daddy Bigger Than Mother to Child


Many cases of obese parents have a child who is equally fat. Apparently the child was at risk of overweight if you have parents who are overweight. And the risk of children getting fat happens if the father is more obese than the transmission from mothers who are obese.

Recent research from the University of Newcastle in Australia found that fathers who are obese take more risk of causing a child to be obese compared with fathers who are not fat. But if only the mother in a family are overweight, then the effect is not the same.

The researchers based their findings on data collected from long study of 3000 families in Australia from 2004 to 2008. Researchers looked at the weight of children at age 4-5 years and then check again when it reaches the age of 8 and 9 years.

The study, published in the International Journal of Obesity is then concluded that obese children have a father four times more likely to follow his father's footsteps at the age of 8-9 years than children whose father has a normal weight.

Dr. Emily Freeman, the researcher, is still not clear about why the father who is overweight has a huge impact on the growth of their children. One plausible theory is diet and exercise habits can affect a father's diet and how much physical activity their children.

"We think it is most likely because the father is an example of a pattern of poor eating and exercise. And mothers in general tend to have more knowledge about weight, diet, and exercise," says Dr. Freeman as reported NineMSN.com, Thursday (10 / 11 / 2011),

Dr. Freeman says that 25 percent of Australian children are overweight or obese. According to him, helping fathers who are obese to lose weight can reduce the amount of obesity in children.