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How to help your child lose weight? Shed the pounds yourself

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Obese children were most likely to lose weight if their parents did at the same time

By Claire Bates

PUBLISHED: 11:42 EST, 15 March 2012 | UPDATED: 11:51 EST, 15 March 2012

Parents wondering how to help their overweight children to slim down could do well to take a long, hard look in the mirror.

Researchers found that obese youngsters were far more successful at shedding the excess pounds if their parents got in shape with them.

'We looked at things such as parenting skills and styles, or changing the home food environment, and how they impacted a child's weight,' said study author Dr Kerri N. Boutelle at UC San Diego.

Support: The best predictor of child weight loss was if the parents had slimmed down at the same time

'The number one way in which parents can help an obese child lose weight? Lose weight themselves. In this study, it was the most important predictor of child weight loss.'

Researchers from UC San Diego and the University of Minnesota looked at eighty parent-child groups with an 8 to 12-year-old overweight or obese child. They participated in a parent-only or parent and child treatment program for five months.

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