Monday, April 11, 2011

Parents of young children less apt to be fit: study

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:
Parents of young children are more likely to engage in unhealthy behavior than adults without kids, new research suggests.

A study of young adults from Minnesota found that mothers of children under 5 years old ate more unhealthy food, exercised less and weighed more than their childless counterparts, researchers reported Monday in the journal Pediatrics.