Unhealthy lifestyle gives weight to our children is not genetic, according to a study by the University of Michigan cardiovascular Center, published in American magazine.
Overweight children are more likely to eat school meals instead of a packed lunch and watch TV or play video games for two hours a day.
The study focused 1,003 with graduation marks Michigan sixth-graders who participated in the program, healthy schools, a school-based program aimed at teaching students healthy habits to reduce the future risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
15 percent of respondents were obese, but almost all students (overweight or not) reported a unhealthy habits 58 percent of obese children sitting in front of the Tv for two hours a day, compared with 41% of their weight in a healthy peers. Also, 45 percent of obese students ate a lunch offered by the School each day, compared with only 34 percent of the weight in a healthy students ... much less overweight children exercised on a regular basis, took a class of physical education or participated in a sporting team. While it was clear that could stand only for all students to participate in healthier habits, obese youth were significantly less likely to engage in healthy behaviors. Study first author, Taylor f. Eagle, saidIf diet and physical activity were similar obese and non-obese students, this will support a stronger genetic basis for obesity in children.
While this would be incorrect to pin complexity obesity exclusively in genetic or lifestyle, it appears that lifestyle genetic advantages in terms of the composition of our destiny.
In other words, the gene can load the gun, but we can control the trigger with our way of life.
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