Kids follow unhealthy role models - parents

Fat teenagers rejoice, you can now blame your parents and the first five years of your life for your plumpness.
New Brisbane research proves fat parents are more likely to have fat children who will grow into fat teenagers if they don’t learn healthy living by age five.
The findings are the latest from the one of the world’s longest running health studies - the Mater-University of Queensland Study of Pregnancy.
About 3000 children in Brisbane had their body mass index (weight in kilograms divided by height in metres square) recorded at age five then at 14.