Post Date December, 03 2023
According to foreign media reports, children from divorced families are more prone to obesity. A Norwegian study showed that the obese children in divorced families were 1.54 times as many as those in ordinary families.
Researchers investigated the height, weight and waist circumference of 3166 Norwegian students, and published their research results at the European Obesity Conference in Sofia. They compared the data with their parents' marital status, and concluded that children from divorced families are more likely to be obese.
However, the researchers did not explain why this trend exists. According to previous research from Rice University in Texas, this trend may be due to the fact that children with complete families can obtain more resources. Children from divorced families spend most of their time at home alone. They are exposed to more junk food and lack exercise. Single parents seldom have time to cook in person, and can only replace them with fast food or takeaway food, which further leads to children's obesity.
In a new study, Norwegian researchers found that children who had breakfast and dinner with their parents were less likely to be obese. Researchers randomly selected 8000 children from 8 European countries. They found that children who had breakfast with their parents five to seven times a week were 40% less likely to be obese than those who had breakfast two to four times a week
The children who also had dinner with their parents five to seven times a week were about 30% less likely to be obese than those who rarely ate at home. But the study found that lunch was different. Because children who have lunch with their parents are more likely to be obese, and their probability is 20% higher than that of other children.
Further research published at the European Obesity Conference showed that eating three slices of white bread a day may increase the risk of obesity by 50%. Researchers at the University of Navarra in Spain have tracked the weight of about 10000 people for five years. They found that people who ate more than 120g of white bread per day had a 40% higher risk of obesity than those who ate 60g or less per week.
Generally speaking, it is difficult for white bread lovers who have an unbalanced diet to explain their weight gain. On the contrary, the lack of inducing satiety and foods with high sugar content will not make the waist circumference thicker.
Jason, chairman of the British Obesity Research Association? Professor Jason Halford said: "White bread is a kind of food that causes obesity, because its useful nutrients similar to fiber are very few, but it contains added sugar, sometimes even a large amount of salt."
