Parents to Blame for Childhood Obesity

Parents to Blame for Childhood Obesity? - Chicago Tribune

The essay will cover different vantage points of obesity including obesity’s relationship to poverty in the U.S., parents’ fight for more physical activity in schools to combat childhood obesity, statistical data about America’s obese population and even a spurious correlation between obesity and sleep duration in children....

Parents are not to blame for the growing levels of teenage obesity, a study suggests, after researchers found that peers are more influential.

Childhood Obesity-Are the parents to blame? Essay - …

A recent SERMO poll found that the majority of doctors (69%) think that parents are mostly or completely to blame for childhood obesity. Thirty percent of respondents said parents are somewhat to blame and only 1 percent said they weren’t to blame at all. The poll received 2,258 responses from doctors around the world.