Healthy Moms, Healthy Kids

Did you know that children of fit mothers are 75% less likely to develop obesity? It’s a startling statistic that the researchers at Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health recently found when they gathered data from monitoring almost 25,000 kids and almost 17,000 Moms. The study’s analysis focused on the association between a mother’s lifestyle habits and the incidence of childhood obesity between the ages of 9 and 18 years old.

The results? When mothers stick to just five healthy habits, kids were 75% less likely to become obese. “Our study was the first to demonstrate that an overall healthy lifestyle outweighs any individual healthy lifestyle factors followed by mothers when it comes to lowering the risk of obesity in their children,” stated the study’s senior author, Qi Sun, ScD, MD, MMS, associate professor at the University’s Department of Nutrition.

So what are these five miracle “healthy habits?” Simple:

• Exercising Regularly
• Eating a Healthy Diet
• Not Smoking
• Drinking Alcohol Only in Moderation
• Keeping a Healthy Body Weight

So all you moms out there, and let’s not leave the dads out of the equation, if you want your children to be healthy, it all starts with you.

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