Will your child be a slim adult? Crowdsourcing novel childhood predictors of adult obesity

Thursday, February 6, 2014 - 15:31 in Psychology & Sociology

This novel study asked 532 international English speaking adults to submit or crowd-source predictors of whether a child is going to be an overweight or a slim adult. The results indicate that crowd-sourced information could be used to identify new predictors that may, after further study, be useful in understanding and reducing obesity. Furthermore, the trends in BMI obtained through this study provide insights into behaviors that should be encouraged to help children maintain a healthy BMI into adulthood.

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