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Obesity Prevention Program for Firstborn Children Has Sibling Benefits

Research findings demonstrate the potential long-term value of teaching new parents a childhood obesity prevention strategy.
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Obesity Prevention Program for Firstborn Children Has Sibling Benefits

In 2018, the NIDDK helped fund the INSIGHT study, which showed that an obesity prevention program for first-time parents and their infants promoted healthy weight gain in the infants through age 3. The NIDDK then funded a follow-up study, called SIBSIGHT, to see if second siblings also benefited even without parents repeating the program when the later children were born. And they did.

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