Which is not a factor associated with obesity in children?

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Family and peer relationships, attitudes, education, ethnicity, and behaviors, school/community environments, and societal attitudes are the socioeconomic, cultural, and physical factors that influence activity patterns, eating behaviors, and attitudes toward food, physical activity, leisure choices, and personal weight (e.g., body image).Therefore, they can contribute positively or negatively to a child's and adolescent's weight.For example, environmental factors may support and encourage a healthy active lifestyle, while others can be barriers to positive behavioral change.Figure 15-3 illustrates children engaging in physical activity in a supportive environment.A 2-year study of households that restricted certain foods, especially when it involved a mother's dietary restriction, found that the weights of the children in these households increased.An explanation for this finding may be that when these children managed to get access to the restricted foods, they ate more of them.In contrast, the availability of healthy foods (e.g., fruits and vegetables) in the home and the healthy eating patterns modeled by parents (and grandparents) positively influence food preferences and eating behaviors that will persist when children begin to make their own choices about the foods they will eat.

Which Is Not a Factor Associated with Obesity in Children