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Obese children and their parents are obese too. This is because parents' behavior and lifestyle influence their children. Children eat the same food as their parents and maintain a similar exercise habit as their father and mother. Children receive snacks from parents more easily than before. The report shows that between 1977 and 2006, children's calorie intake from snacks increased from an average of 168 calories per day to 586 calories. The oldest are children between the ages of 2 and 6, who eat 181 more calories per day than two decades earlier. This shows that if parents do not limit their children to take high-calorie foods, otherwise junk food will make them obese. In addition to this, some parental genetic or hormonal factors cause obesity in children. A defective genetic that parents pass on to their children includes obesity DNA which will cause congenital obesity in their children. So, family environment is a major factor causing obesity. The formation of obesity is also due to other reasons. As people age, muscles become soft and flabby, people have less energy to exercise, so age is a factor causing obesity. Another cause can be pregnancy. After pregnancy, the woman's body can no longer be returned to its previous state, this is also a determining factor