Dear parents, the quality of your kid’s poor sleep can affect their eating habits and weight, according to a study. “Childhood obesity very often leads to adult obesity,” said the study’s lead author, Bernard Fuemmeler. Overall, Fuemmeler said, the study results indicate that while sleep duration is important, examining markers of sleep quality may also be useful in designing childhood obesity prevention strategies. “Today, many children are not getting enough sleep,” Fuemmeler said. Because of the strong links between obesity and many types of cancer, childhood obesity prevention is cancer prevention, in my view.”The data was presented at the American Association for Cancer Research Special Conference Obesity and Cancer: Mechanisms Underlying Etiology and Outcomes.

Source: Hindustan Times January 27, 2018 05:48 UTC