Mother-to-daughter and father-to-son links in a study of child obesity are discovered by medical scientists, BBC reports. Researchers say that genetics is unlikely to be playing a role in the issue. Instead, they insist on psychological factors. Scientists from Plymouth Medical School, U.S. have put forward this conclusion as a result of their study of 226 families, where it was discovered that obese mothers were 10 times more likely to have obese daughters, and for fathers and sons, there was a six-fold rise.

These findings imply that reasons for obesity should be re-thought and a more in-depth research on contributing psychological factors is required. Contrary to the belief that obese children become obese adults, the researchers from Plymouth found out that obese mothers may have eight-year-old daughters suffering from excessive weight.

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