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Warning: Drinking Can Lead to Chubby Children
Filed under: In The News, Alcohol & Drugs, Research Reveals: Big Kids
A drink for Mom or Dad could mean more cake for Junior. Credit: Corbis
And you know what else? Your kids are going to be fat.
Shakespeare nailed it. "Oh, invisible spirit of wine, if thou has no name to be known by, let us call thee devil!"
The evil toll of the demon rum never ends.
Now you can add fat kids to the ravages of alcoholism. Researchers from Washington University in St. Louis found that alcoholics tend to have tubbier tots. They say this is probably because addiction is, to some extent, hereditary.
Kids of alcoholics may not hit the sauce but ... mmm, donuts.
In the study, published in the Archives of General Psychiatry, researchers analyzed data from two different surveys regarding alcoholism. The surveys were conducted in the 1990s through the 2000s and involved more than 75,000 people. The data revealed there are more chubby children in families with a history of alcoholism.
And, researchers claim, kids just keep getting fatter because there is more food with more calories than there was just a few years ago. Junk food and alcohol have much the same effect on the brain, they claim.
Is this not just what Larry Groce foretold in 1977 with his hit single "Junk Food Junkie"?
"I'm afraid some day they'll find me, just stretched out my bed, with a handful of Pringle's potato chips and a Ding Dong by my head."
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1-04-2011 @ 10:52AM
Henley said...How much booze are you giving your child to effect them this way? Maybe you should think more about what your doing and less about the adverse effect alcohol has on the kid. Besides whiskey is not the cheapest thing to be tossing your kid all the time. Save your money and shop smart with coupons and deals at Http://bit.ly/CouponSavings .
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1-05-2011 @ 9:09AM
Alicia said...I really don't think they meant "if you give our kids booze, they'll be fat." I think they meant, "if you're an alcoholic, you probably won't be capable of properly caring for your child and they may have a genetic predisposition to being overweight."
1-07-2011 @ 1:06PM
Jessica said...Oh Few.. i thought this article was going to tell me i cant have a glass a wine or beer occassionaly at dinner.... i'm safe :)
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