Brief sleep intervention works long-term to prevent child obesity [medicalxpress.com]

Alicia Doktor 9/7/184:00 AM

When it comes to obesity prevention, sleep is not usually something that springs to mind, but a University of Otago research team has found we should not underestimate its importance.

Professor Rachael Taylor, Director of the Edgar Diabetes and Obesity Research Centre and co-leader of the team, says one in three New Zealand children is overweight or obese by the time they start school.

Treating obesity once established is challenging, however, in a study published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, and funded by the Health Research Council of New Zealand, researchers found a sleep intervention in infancy reduced the risk of obesity for participants later in childhood.

[For more on this study by University of Otago, go to https://medicalxpress.com/news...m-child-obesity.html]

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