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Obesity can run in families, but family lifestyle has just as much to do with teenagers? weight as their genes do, new research shows.
?What we do as a family?our family lifestyles?matters for weight. Lifestyles aren?t just about individual behaviors,? study author Dr. Molly A. Martin, Pennsylvania State University in University Park told Reuters Health. The study is the first to demonstrate that the connection between parents and children?s weight is social as well as genetic.
?We had a gut sense that this was known or true, but in the research literature it actually had not been proven,? added Martin, a sociologist who studies families, social inequalities, and adolescent health. Instead, she said, scientists studying behavior and genetics have focused solely on the roles of genes and environment, without trying to separate out the effects of a family?s behavior.
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