one step behind

Researchers in the UK found out that obesity strikes children of middle classes and not of the working poor. It seams that the problem are working mothers.

Why some other issues are not considered in the research?
- In the published news its not clear if the income level and women employment were analysed separately to know which was more welated with which. Like in this claim:

"For every 10 hours a mother worked, children from households with an annual income of £22,000 or higher were more likely to be overweight than children from the lowest income group,"

- The conclusion on the impact of women working seem to come from a comparison in the 80's. Weren't any other changes besides women in employment?

The UCL/Gosh research links the explosion in childhood obesity with the rise in women going out to work, particularly those with young children. In 1984, 27 per cent of women with children under five in the UK were employed, while in 2004, 59 per cent of married or cohabiting women and 34 per cent of lone parents were employed. No link was found between the hours worked by the father or partner and weight problems.

And more
- why is the mother and not the both parents the responsability for having healthy food at home?
- why there is no consideration of the quality of food in the childcare centers and schools as recently reported?
- why is not the problem looked for somewhere else as in many other countries where women employment is high there is no obesity problem?

Will we never win this for good?!

full article in: http://news.independent.co.uk/health/article2790964.ece