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Study suggests sending kids to daycare not a factor in child obesity

Study suggests sending kids to daycare not a factor in child obesity

Working parents who send their children to daycare no longer need to worry about whether this puts their kids at increased risk for obesity, a U.S. study suggests.While several previous observational studies have suggested children in daycare may be more likely to gain too much weight than similar kids cared for by parents at home, the current study looked at data on more than 10,000 youngsters and found no such connection."Our study casts doubt on previously held beliefs that non-parental childcare is associated with a higher risk of obesity," said lead study author Dr. Inyang Isong, a researcher at Harvard University and Boston Children's Hospital.


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Daycare not linked to child obesity

Daycare not linked to child obesity

(Reuters Health) - Working parents who send their children to daycare no longer need to worry about whether this puts their kids at increased risk for obesity, a U.S. study suggests.While several previous observational studies have suggested children in daycare may be more likely to gain too much weight than similar kids cared for by parents at home, the current study looked at data on more than 10,000 youngsters and found no such connection."Our study casts doubt on previously held beliefs that non-parental childcare is associated with a higher risk of obesity," said lead study author Dr. Inyang Isong, a researcher at Harvard University and Boston Children's Hospital.


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Increasing trends in maternal obesity could impact mother and child

Increasing trends in maternal obesity could impact mother and child

The epidemic of obesity is felt in prenatal clinics and delivery rooms around the world with a worrisome trend in high-risk pregnancies that could impact mother and child, according to Patrick M. Catalano, MD, the Dierker-Biscotti Women's Health and Wellness Professor and Director of the Center for Reproductive Health at MetroHealth and Director of the Clinical Research Unit of the Case Western Reserve University.Dr. Catalano collaborated with a team of clinicians and scientists from around the world to address these issues in a series of review papers on maternal obesity published this month in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology."The management of obesity in pregnancy begins before, during and after pregnancy," said Dr. Catalano.