Fat kids linked to chubby parents Children are more likely to be overweight if their parents were fat. A new study has found that the risk of obesity was six times higher in middle-age people if their parents were also chubby in their 40s and.
Having parents with obesity in middle age raises a child's risk for obesity at a similar age sixfold shows data on how obesity affects different generations in one family.
Researchers say the children of parents who have obesity in midlife are 6 times more likely to develop the condition at the same age compared to people whose parents did not have obesity