Here’s more proof of what stress can do to your family’s health. New research from the University of Illinois finds millions of poor children in the United States may be getting fat before age 10 because their moms are stressed out and the kids turn to unhealthy comfort food to escape.
Researchers say the stress is rooted in poverty and can be brought on by things like money problems, working too much, and not having good health insurance.
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Tags: Children, comfort food, Food & Nutrition, moms, obesity, overweight, poverty, stress
