Fat women have fat daughters

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to do the same thing:
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follow suit
Girls whose mothers were clinically obese were more likely to follow suit at a young age
one of several things that affects or influences a situation:
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factor
This suggests behavioural rather than genetic factors
to record the progress or development of something over a period:
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track
They are tracking 300 children in the hope of discovering why diabetes is on the increase in youngsters.
to have or continue to have something:
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bear
Children's weight problems bore no relationship to obesity in their opposite sexparent.
not showing careful choice or planning, especially so that harm results:
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indiscriminate
The indiscriminate use of fertilizers can cause long-term problems.
Any genetic link between obese parents and their children would be indiscriminate of gender.
the physical and/or social condition of being male or female:
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gender
The clearly defined gender-assortative pattern is an exciting one
to arrange into group of the same type; to classify,; to fit into a class or group
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assort
"The clearly defined gender-assortative pattern is an exciting one
to cause something to be the opposite of what it was before:
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turn sth on its head
These new findings turn the accepted theories on their head.
These findings could turn our thinking on childhood obesity on its head.
the act of stopping something from happening or of stopping someone from doing something:
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prevention
prevention of obesity in children will solve the problem in adulthood.
an idea or explanation for something that is based on known facts but has not yet been proved:
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hypothesis
plural hypotheses
Early Bird's evidence supports the opposite hypothesis
a fight, especially during a war:
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combat
we want to combat obesity in the child.
to be the reason why something happens
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account for
Students account for the vast majority of our customers.
Type 2 diabetes accounts for around nine out of 10 cases of the disease.
a disease in which the body cannot control the level of sugar in the blood
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diabetes
The other sort of diabetes, Type 1, is not linked to obesity

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