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Study: Parents Eat More Fat Than Other Adults
For the first time researchers have counted up the fat consumed by adults living with children and compared it to the amount eaten by those living in child-free homes.
They found parents eat an extra 5 grams of fat daily – including 1.7 grams of the most unhealthy saturated fat linked to heart disease. That’s around one-quarter of the total ‘permitted’ amount of fat an adult should be eating a day – and equivalent to a pepperoni pizza a week in saturated fat alone.
Living with children also means you are more likely to eat foods such as cheese, ice cream, beef, pizza and salty snacks, says a report in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine.
Dr Helena Laroche of the University of Iowa led the study, which looked at questionnaires completed by 6,600 adults living with and without children who were asked about their consumption of high-fat foods.
