A study led by a group of researchers at Baylor University revealed that market-gained nourishments other than traditional diet routine can prove to be a reason for obesity in children, whether they do physical activities or not.
“The importance of a poor diet versus low energy expenditure on the development of childhood obesity remains unclear,” said Samuel Urlacher, assistant professor of anthropology at Baylor University, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar, and lead author of the study.
“Using gold-standard measures of energy expenditure, we show that relatively lean, rural forager-horticulturalists children in the Amazon spend approximately the same total number of calories each day as their much fatter peri-urban counterparts and, notably, even the same number of calories each day as children living in the industrialized United States” he added.
“Variation in things like habitual physical activity and immune activity has no detectable impact on children’s daily…