Secondhand obesity

Secondhand obesity

Secondhand obesity is the effect of a parent's obesity on the child. There is evidence suggesting that children "learn" to be obese from their parents. Thus obese parents may create an unintended health risk for their children by their eating habits because children may "imitate" their behavior and become obese themselves.

Scientific evidence suggests that parents who are obese create an unintended health risk for their children in the long-run, due to their children adopting the same eating habits that may have led to the parent's or parents' obesity, which may lead to obesity in the child. The child might thereby incur the host of health problems that obesity causes. [http://www.obesityaction.org/aboutobesity/childhood.php] . "Secondhand obesity" could also refer to the more general phenomenon of the acceptance of one's own obesity as a result of routinely seeing many others who are also obese [http://www.smokersclubinc.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1194] .

Secondhand obesity was discussed on The O'Reilly Factor, an American talk show, on March 30th, 2006.


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