Denmark: Children Who Co-Sleep Nightly Are 70% Less Likely to be Overweight vs. Kids Who Never Sleep with Their Parents

May 21st, 2012

That’s great, but I’m sick of getting kicked in the nuts. 😐

Via: Inhabitots:

In odd but true news, yet another perk of co-sleeping has been revealed – reduced obesity. According to a new study from Denmark, kids who co-sleep nightly are 70% less likely to be overweight as compared to kids who never sleep with their parents. The study also found that even occasional co-sleeping had benefits, as part-time co-sleepers were 50% less likely to be overweight as compared to total non-co-sleepers.

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3 Responses to “Denmark: Children Who Co-Sleep Nightly Are 70% Less Likely to be Overweight vs. Kids Who Never Sleep with Their Parents”

  1. zxkuqyb says:
    May 21, 2012 at 2:17 pm

    http://i.imgur.com/J2BRj.jpg

  2. Kevin says:
    May 21, 2012 at 2:29 pm

    Oh I LOLled hard at that.

    We have two in there now…

  3. Ann says:
    May 28, 2012 at 10:54 am

    I think this story is quite accurate. This seems to me to be more a case of correlation that causation. There is nothing about co-sleeping that could make a kid less likely to be overweight BUT parents who co-sleep are much more likely to use breastfeed, give their kids natural food,and do all the other things to take care of their kids that don’t involve shoving food in their faces to make them shut up.

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