Adults living with children eat more saturated fat -- the equivalent of nearly an entire frozen pepperoni pizza each week -- than do adults who do not live with children, according to a University of Iowa and University of Michigan Health System study.
This press release issued by Eurekalert says the finding was based on data from the federal government's National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey III. The UI-led study was made public Saturday, and the paper will appear in the Jan. 4, 2007, online edition of the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine.
Most family diet studies have examined how adults influence children's eating habits, but few studies have considered how children or their habits may be associated with adults' food intake, said Helena Laroche, M.D., an associate in internal medicine and pediatrics at the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine and the study's primary author.
"The analysis shows that adults' fat intake, particularly saturated fat, is higher for those who live with children compared to adults who don't live with children," Laroche said.
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