Children who live with their grandparents, grown more well-fed and have a greater chance of being overweight or obese.
Experts say that grandparents, as a rule, are less energetic, but also more prone to indulge children with sweets and pastries. Researchers from Finland have analyzed the 9,000 families in the UK who had at least one child between the ages of nine months and three years.
They found that children, for whom primarily cared for by their grandparents, 22 per cent more likely to were overweight or obese than those who were brought up only by parents or friends or nursing neighbors. Experts explain this by the fact that grandparents overfed children. This is because since the grandparents trying to raise the chances of babies to survive.
This view is assimilated by them in their early childhood, when many families are malnourished and the food was a decisive factor for the child's survival. Also older people are less mobile and they can not be as active with his grandchildren as their parents.
