re than, his or her peers and watched less TV on weekends than mothers of older children.
Older children, according to their mothers, also consumed more sweetened drinks and salty and sweet snacks than the younger ones. They also didn't eat dinner with parents as often as the preschoolers did, a factor generally thought to lead to kids making poorer food choices.
More information
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has more about childhood obesity.
-- Kevin McKeever
SOURCE: Elsevier, news release, Jan. 9, 2009
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