In addition to academic values decreased, emotions always moody, and difficult to communicate, divorce can also make the body fat and obese children. Is it true?
Research held Norwegian Institute of Public Health and the University of Oslo, studied 3,166 third grade students to ascertain whether the marital status of parents affects the style and appetite children.
For accurate results, the researchers involving school nurses to measure the height and weight of the students. Then, information on the status of the parents were divided into three categories, namely, married, divorced, and single.
The result is a child with divorced parents are overweight as much as 54 percent of their ideal weight, and 89 percent more fat than other children with parents who are married.
The study also found that boys with divorced parents more at risk of obesity. They have a 63 percent higher chance to experience an increase in body weight, compared to boys with a parent harmony.
The researchers reported that the link between parental marital status and weight of children, caused by a reduction in family income and energy assistance in household chores. As a result, after the split, many fathers and mothers choose serve a variety of fast food on their children.
Description of research results more fully published by the journal BMJ Open, on June 4, 2014 ago.
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