
Mothers who choose to work should pay attention to their kids food intake. A study showed that lack of time to cook healthy meals and irregular sleep patterns to make children prone to obesity.Parenting as well as a career woman has been chosen the mothers of today. It is not wrong, maybe with your work can help increase family income husbands. However, the need for smart tricks to balance time between family, work, self, and social life. If not, there will be chaos in your household.
A recent study showed that mothers who spend more time working outside the home tend to have children who are overweight. The study, funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), appears in the edition January / February 2011 journal Child Development.
The researchers from American University, Cornell University, and University of Chicago in the United States was analyzing data from 900 children of school age there. They found that cumulative time a mother who worked closely associated with increased body mass index (body mass index / BMI) of children. Although relatively small, but easily measurable. BMI is a division between body weight and height that produces the size of a person is overweight or not.
“It seems that a factor is the environment, ie the total time working mother and not because of works that contribute to improving a child’s BMI,” said study author Taryn W. Morrissey, an assistant professor of public administration and policy at American University, USA.
“So, one possible policy implication is to do more to help working parents find ways of quick and easy to prepare healthy food,” he said as quoted by page healthday.com.
Morrissey and his colleagues analyzed data from NICHD’s Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development, which began in 1991 and involving 1300 newborns in 10 cities in the United States. For this study, they examined data from 900 children collected by telephone and personal interviews as a child in grade 3.5, and 6.
“For the average height of children in third grade pupils, increased BMI equal size with the addition of one level and 0.3 to one kilogram overweight, compared to the addition of normal occurred in a year,” said Morrissey. The effect was even greater among children grade 5 and 6.
“This is probably due to the fifth and sixth graders generally have greater independence and the nature of adult supervision to lower-than the use of time and their food choices than the third graders. Mothers who work resulted in the selection of food the child becomes ill and rarely do physical activity, “wrote the researchers in this study.
Alison E Field, an obesity researcher and professor of child health at Harvard Medical School, United States, said that this study highlights the challenges faced by all parents who work because they must balance the demands of responsibilities between work and family.