Researchers examine role played by parental behavior in helping obese children lose weight.HealthDay (1/25, Goodwin) reported that "obese children whose parents took classes on the importance of healthy eating and exercise lost weight and kept it off for the next two years, according to" a study published online in the journal Pediatrics. After enrolling "mostly mothers of 169 moderately obese or overweight children aged five to nine years in a six-month 'healthy lifestyle' course, in which parents were taught about portion size and reading nutrition labels, being a good role model for their children, and setting limits," researchers found that "at the end of six months, children's body mass index...dropped an average of 10 percent, as did their waist circumference. Eighteen months later, the children had kept the weight off, the investigators found."
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