•Risk Factors
•Rented 3 Bed-roomed terraced house, no garden
•7 People in house
•Urban-dwelling South London
•Father working class (skilled)
•Father smoked and sometimes drank heavily
•Father sometimes away for prolonged periods
•No car
•Limited facilities
– no fridge or microwave
•Parents poor dental health – sugar in tea
•Outcome:
•3 boys >6’, athletic, employed
daughter tall but
overweight
•All children well-educated
(2/4 at grammar
school)
•2 Boys long lived 91 and 83 yrs
2 died – obesity &
alcohol related
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