Folks worried about becoming flabby in middle age should check out what their parents looked like when they were that age, a new study says.
in middle age if both their parents were chubby during that time of their lives, according to research to be presented at the European Congress onand parental weight doesn't fade as a kid ages, said lead researcher Mari Mikkelsen, a doctoral research fellow of community medicine at the Arctic University of Norway.
“We found that this is indeed the case -- children whose parents lived with obesity are much more likely to be in living with obesity themselves when they are in their 40s and 50s, long after they have left home,” Mikkelsen added. All the offspring were between 40 and 59 when they participated in the seventh wave of the Tromso Study, which took place in 2015 and 2016. Their parents participated in the fourth wave of the Tromso Study when they were in the same age range, back in 1994 and 1995.Offspring BMI increased by 0.8 units for every 4-unit increase in the mother's BMI, and by 0.74 units for every 3.1-unit increase in the father's BMI.
“Genes play an important role by affecting our susceptibility to weight gain and influence how we respond to obesogenic environments in which it can be easy to eat unhealthily,” Mikkelsen said.habits to their parents when they all live together under the same roof, resulting in a similar BMI status,” she added.
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