Food and activity preferences in children of lean and obese parents
International Journal of ObesityPublished 1 July 2001
J Wardle, Carol Ann Guthrie, Saskia C. Sanderson, Leann L. Birch, Robert Plomin
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Part of the process whereby a genetic risk of obesity is transmitted to the next generation could be through differences in diet and activity preferences, which would place susceptible individuals at risk of positive energy balance in the permissive nutritional environment of industrialised countries today.
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Part of the process whereby a genetic risk of obesity is transmitted to the next generation could be through differences in diet and activity preferences, which would place susceptible individuals at risk of positive energy balance in the permissive nutritional environment of industrialised countries today.
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