Obesity Link To Sweet Rewards For Children

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Children who receive sweets as a reward for good behaviour or as a bribe to keep them quiet may be susceptible to developing poor eating habits which can ultimately lead to obesity problems in later years. The research carried out by YouGov study for Slimming World and reported by the Press Association shows that people who received rewards in the way of sugary sweets when they were growing up are likely to have a greater risk of obesity by 34% than those people who did not get sweet rewards.

Further problems that could become habitual from this reward type behaviour could include extreme dieting, depression, low self esteem and relying on high calorific dense foods in times of stress. The cure for obesity is expensive and could cost the UK billions in future years as more operations and medicines are required to combat the diseases associated with poor lifestyle that could have been prevented at childhood.

The Slimming World’s campaign is too rally communities together and communicate the reasons for obesity and by bringing in new initiatives and working together obesity can be defeated.

Posted by Robert Spoon on Monday, February 28th, 2011. Filed under Health. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry