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Emotional eating 'learned by children not inherited'

19 June 2018

Dr Moritz Herle (UCL Great Ormond Street Hospital Institute of Child Health) and Dr Clare Llewellyn (UCL Institute of Epidemiology & Health) find that genetics play only a small role in young children's emotional overeating and under-eating, unlike in other eating behaviours in childhood such as food fussiness. Read: The BBC More: The Daily Mail, iNews, The Independent, UCL News