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"New research finds that teenage obesity is associated with poor mother-child relationships. Researchers followed 977 children from their early years into their teens, and found that more than 25 percent of the toddlers had a &amp;quot;poor-quality&amp;quot; relationship with their mothers, compared to the 22 percent who had perfect scores during testing. At 15 years of age, 26 percent of the children who scored lowest on mother-child relationship tests as toddlers were obese--twice as many as those without such problems. While this research doesn&amp;#039;t prove a cause and effect relationship between obesity and relationships, it is consistent with the association between children&amp;#039;s emotional and intellectual development and their relationship with their mother at a young age. Sarah Anderson, who worked on the study, says that it&amp;#039;s possible that a stressful childhood could have a lasting affect on children&amp;#039;s brains. There are many ways in which children can react to stress, one of them through consumption and appetite regulation. The study is published in the Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics. - Jennifer Fiorentino, WomansDay.com Intern  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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