October 22/Atlanta/HealthDay News -- Stress in parents may contribute to obesity in their kids, and as parental stress rises the kids are more likely to eat fast food, a new study finds.

The research has caveats. It does not definitively prove that kids put on more pounds when they live with stressed-out adults. And, oddly, the study found that kids of stressed parents did not eat less produce, although this may have something to do with french fries counting as a vegetable, the authors noted.