Kids Can Avoid Obesity by Getting to Bed Earlier!
If you follow my work, you know that I’m a huge advocate for getting kids active and learning how to make healthy decisions in their life. This instills healthy habits early in life which can carry over into adulthood to help avoid obesity. It’s much easier to form healthy habits early in a child’s life than it is to break bad habits formed by years of poor choices.
What if there was one little secret that could help ensure your kids don’t pack on the pounds as they age? While it may not be proven to be 100% certain, the research findings are still astounding!
Avoid Obesity
A government-funded study looking at 977 kids was recently released in The Journal of Pediatrics that showed a correlation between how much sleep preschoolers get a night and how many of them developed obesity as a teenager. The study which was called the “Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development “showed that by putting preschoolers to bed by 8 pm helped avoid obesity in those same children by 50% when compared to putting preschoolers to bed after 9 pm.
This study was started in 1991 and followed the 977 kids from birth through their teenage years collecting data such as height, weight, and their mother’s educational interaction with the child as viewed by video footage.
This is a very interesting study as there really haven’t been any studies that looked at the correlation between bedtime and how to avoid obesity in children. We all are aware of the rise in overweight and obesity rates in children these days, so this study is a step in the right direction in hopefully reversing the trend and getting our youth down to a safe and healthy weight.
The director of the Pediatric Insomnia Program at the University of Chicago Medicine mentioned the one thing that parents definitely have control over is when their children go to bed. Kids that don’t get enough sleep at night can become fussy the following day which could cause them to be inactive due to lethargy.
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