Comforting kids with lollies can cause long-term pain - study

It’s so easy to turn a young child's tears into a smile by giving them a lolly.

But that smile could come at a big long-term cost to them, a new study reveals.

It found that giving sweets to comfort small children could lead to emotional eating when they were older. That in turn could can lead to obesity. Even longer term, it could lead to them recreating the same vicious cycle with their own children.

Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, King’s College London and the University of Leeds looked at a group of 801 Norwegian children at 4-years-old, then again at ages 6, 8, and 10.

from Olivia W’s Blog Rss http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/well-good/teach-me/91858448/Comforting-kids-with-lollies-can-cause-long-term-pain-study

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