Parental Defensiveness about Multifactorial Genomic and Environmental Causes of Children's Obesity Risk.

CONCLUSIONS: Multifactorial causal information about children's obesity risk elicits unintended consequences among parents whose children are most at-risk for obesity in adulthood. As these messages are most accurate, it is crucial to investigate effective ways to communicate the holistic nature of obesity risk to parents. PMID: 30946599 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30946599?dopt=Abstract

Source: Childhood Obesity - April 6, 2019 Category: Eating Disorders & Weight Management Tags: Child Obes Source Type: research