Scottish families are being urged to help researchers in their efforts to combat obesity. The Rowett Institute in Aberdeen is seeking more than 200 families with pre-school children to try to establish why some children remain thin while others become overweight. Project leader Dr Diane Jackson said, 'We don't fully understand why it is that some people are more likely to become obese than others.' While levels of food intake and physical activity lead to obesity, she said, hereditary factors also play an important part.
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