Healthy Eating By Parents Sets A Good Example To Their Children

Fat parents have fat kids.

If lower-income mothers want kids with healthy diets, it's best to adopt healthy eating habits themselves and encourage their children to eat good foods rather than use force, rewards or punishments, says a Michigan State University study.

The study, which appears in a recent issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, is one of a few that focuses on the eating habits of low-income families. The results demonstrate that the mothers who led by example and persuaded, rather than ordered, their kids to eat their vegetables had kids with healthier diets, said Sharon Hoerr, MSU professor of food science and human nutrition.

It ain't gonna work.

Fat parents do not care if they sicken or kill their children.

If they did, they would not be fat; they would not get their kids fat.