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ea0020p451 | Obesity and Metabolism | ECE2009

Familial obesity and the role of nutrition

Zavareh Maryam Beheshti , Sadeghian Saeid , Mirmiran Parvin , Hosseini Firoozeh

Goal: To study the relation between the obesity of children and their parents, and energy intake.Materials and methods: Of 236 households containing 828 population (356 children age 5–25 years, and the rest their parents) were selected from the subjects of ‘Tehran Lipid and Glucose study’ (2006–2008) for this study. Food intake of the subjects was studied using FFQ. In this study, energy intake ≥75 percentile was regarded as &#1...