It appears that stress doesn’t just make adults seek refuge in a bag of potato chips. Kids also turn to food to avoid dealing with stressful situations. According to a recent Reuters UK report, children raised in stressful home environments are more likely to be fat.
The data is from a study of nearly 7,500 Swedish families that were tracked from the time the family’s children were born until the children turned 5 or 6. Parents were asked to report on various stress factors including family accident or illness, death, divorce, unemployment, exposure to violence, as well as parenting difficulties, spouse …read more