{"id":8388,"date":"2014-03-29T07:00:39","date_gmt":"2014-03-29T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=8388"},"modified":"2014-03-29T00:00:40","modified_gmt":"2014-03-29T05:00:40","slug":"american-heart-association-says-ruling-with-an-iron-fist-could-make-your-child-pack-on-pounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2014\/03\/29\/american-heart-association-says-ruling-with-an-iron-fist-could-make-your-child-pack-on-pounds\/","title":{"rendered":"American Heart Association says ruling with an iron fist could make your child pack on pounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-56563\" title=\"American Heart Association\" alt=\"American Heart Association\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/American-Heart-Association-new-logo-480x230.jpg\" width=\"230\" height=\"110\" \/><strong>San Francisco, CA<\/strong> &#8211; If you\u2019re rigid with rules and skimpy on affection and dialogue with your kids, they have a greater chance of being obese, according to research presented at the American Heart Association\u2019s Epidemiology &amp; Prevention\/Nutrition, Physical Activity &amp; Metabolism Scientific Sessions 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers followed a nationally representative group of 37,577 Canadian children aged 0 to 11.<!--more-->They compared kids whose parents are generally affectionate, have reasonable discussions about behavior with their child and set healthy boundaries (authoritative) with those whose parents were strict about limits without much dialogue or affection (authoritarian).<\/p>\n<p>The latter group had a 30 percent higher chance of being obese among kids 2 to 5 years old and a 37 percent higher chance among kids 6 to 11 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cParents should at least be aware of their parenting style,\u201d said Lisa Kakinami, Ph.D., a post-doctoral epidemiologist at McGill University in Montreal. \u201cIf you\u2019re treating your child with a balance of affection and limits \u2014 these are the kids who are least likely to be obese.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Researchers compared parents\u2019 answers to a cross-sectional survey. They then categorized <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heart.org\/HEARTORG\/GettingHealthy\/HealthierKids\/HowtoMakeaHealthyHome\/How-to-Make-a-Healthy-Home_UCM_304154_SubHomePage.jsp\" > parenting styles<\/a> and analyzed them with respect to children\u2019s body mass index (BMI) percentile.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers also found that poverty was associated with <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heart.org\/HEARTORG\/GettingHealthy\/HealthierKids\/ChildhoodObesity\/What-is-childhood-obesity_UCM_304347_Article.jsp\" > childhood obesity<\/a>. But parenting style affected obesity regardless of income level.<\/p>\n<p>More than one-third of American children are overweight or obese according to the American Heart Association. Exploring factors at home that may be fueling this public health concern could lead to better prevention and interventions, Kakinami said.<\/p>\n<p>Co-authors are Tracie Barnett, Ph.D., and Gilles Paradis, M.D. Author disclosures are on the abstract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco, CA &#8211; If you\u2019re rigid with rules and skimpy on affection and dialogue with your kids, they have a greater chance of being obese, according to research presented at the American Heart Association\u2019s Epidemiology &amp; Prevention\/Nutrition, Physical Activity &amp; Metabolism Scientific Sessions 2014. Researchers followed a nationally representative group of 37,577 Canadian children [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[2538,5164,5163,2555,4763],"class_list":["post-8388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-american-heart-association","tag-bmi","tag-body-mass-index","tag-childhood-obesity","tag-san-francisco-ca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8389,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8388\/revisions\/8389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}