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Higher Risk Of Obesity For Children Neglected By Parents

Spending more time and giving more attention to your child may mean the difference between a lean or obese child, finds a new study. Three types of three categories of child maltreatment in the prior year were assessed: neglect (such as not providing proper supervision for the child), corporal punishment (such as spanking the child on the bottom with a bare hand) and psychological aggression (such as threatening to spank the child but not actually doing it).

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