Your kids are fat and eat junk food because of your lack of education, study says

[The Straight Story]

A study has concluded that the parents with a better education tend to have children who eat healthier food.


An eight-nation study of over 14,000 children between the ages of two and nine found a link between the level of education of the parents of the children and the level of foods likely to be deemed unhealthy and lead to obesity. Succinctly, the study, according to Science Daily, found that parents with better educations were more likely to have children who ate more fruits and vegetables and less foods containing sugar and fats, prime contributors to obesity.

The Identification and prevention of dietary- and lifestyle-induced health effects in children and infants (IDEFICS) study took place in eight European countries -- Italy, Estonia, Cyprus, Belgium, Sweden, Hungary, Germany and Spain and published in the journal Public Health Nutrition.

Data from the study indicated that the lower the parental education level, the more likely they were to feed their children (or allow them to eat) food rich in sugars and fats. Parents with higher levels of education were more likely to introduce their children to vegetables, fruit, pasta, rice and wholemeal bread -- foods of a greater nutritional value.

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[el_bryanto]

1. I wonder if there is a correlation between income and healthy food for kids?

But I'm not wondering that hard because I think I know the answer.

Bryant

[RKP5637]

2. Yep, same here, known that correlation for

years ... often 'fat food' is cheaper.

[LWolf]

3. Of course there is,

and it's not a coincidence that there is a relationship between income and educational achievement, as well.

As someone who springs from the working poor, raised by a single mom with a high school diploma, I was raised on cheap food. I've battled with weight problems all of my life. Sometimes successfully, sometimes not. As a mostly single mom who raised 2 kids while working and putting herself through college, my own sons grew up on cheap food, and it shows in their food choices as adults.

[JNelson6563]

4. Not always.

I am poor but know about nutrition. I don't buy "bad" food and rarely buy meat. My grown kids (21 & 24) are the same~~they've influenced me more than I them on this issue.

We are not formally educated but cared enough to learn about this.

Being poor I have very little to spend on groceries. I always marvel at the gigantic people who wheel through the store with overflowing carts of soda and chips and all kinds of pure shit. N'ary a sign of nutrition among the hundreds of dollars worth of "food". And we're not talking a rare sighting of such things, I mean they are all over the store every single time I go.

People like the taste of crappy food and don't want to change. It's too yummy and they can always just get prescriptions to unclog their arteries. And of course there's always the "glandular" problems they suspect they have~~cause they "never eat!1!" but keep gaining weight.

Yeah, as a poor person I grow weary of reading/hearing about how us poor people can't possibly afford to eat well and of course we are too dumb to figure it out.

Julie