Parental influence on childhood obesity: A review

The issue of childhood obesity is expanding at an accelerated rate compared to previous gen-erations. Both medical and societal conesquen-ces have arisen from this predicament in chil-dren and adults. The significance of parental influence as a factor is of key interest in devel-oping possible prevention programs. Three ma-jor categories of focus are parental control, at-titudes, and behavior in association with child-hood overweight and obesity. This comprehen-sive systematic and evidence-based review sum-marizes currently published results, as well as addresses gaps and flaws which should be inc-luded in future research on pediatric obesity and parental influence