Effect of parental fatness levels on the fatness of biological and adoptive children
- 2 January 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Ecology of Food and Nutrition
- Vol. 6 (2) , 91-93
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03670244.1977.9990485
Abstract
As shown in pairings involving 2,845 biological children and 147 adopted children, fatness of the children increases in stepwise fashion according to parental fatness combinations (Lean X Lean through Obese X Obese) for both biological and for social (i.e., adopted) children as well, thus indicating that fatness (while strongly familial) is not necessarily genetic.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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