Stressed Kids, Fatter Kids?

If you want your children to avoid a weight problem, watch their stress level.

By Beth Howard

From Reader's Digest

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In research from Sweden's Linköping University involving 7,443 families, toddlers in pressured, burdened households were nearly three times as likely as those in tranquil homes to be obese when checked three years later, says researcher Felix-Sebastian Koch. Worried or overwhelmed children may gain weight for the same reasons adults do, including the fact that stress increases cortisol; that can disrupt leptin, the hormone that signals your brain that you're full.

Learn more:
Choosing a Weight-Loss Program for your Child
Is Stress Making You Fat?

From Reader's Digest - May 2009

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