Waco’s Baptist sensibilities aren’t keeping the flocks of people away from Fat Ho Burgers. Since opening last week, the city’s newest burger shack has received more press than even Brittney Griner.  During the Monday lunch rush, a line of customers hungry for a Supa Dupa Fly Ho with Cheese snaked from the cashier to the door.

A single paper menu was passed down the line from customer to customer. “You are what you eat,” the menu proclaimed proudly. Among the other available options are the Bad Mamajama, the Fat Chicken Ho, the Sloppy Ho brisket sandwich and, curiously, A Fat Ho Named Bertha. The younger (or just smaller) set can enjoy a Tiny Fat Ho off the dollar menu.

Newly minted restaurateur Lakita Evans, 24, said the joint’s provocative name came to her when she was watching Mo’Nique’s 2006 film Phat Girlz. “I was trying to make myself laugh,” she said. “I knew the name would put a smile on people’s faces, so I just did it.”

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Educating parents on healthy eating could be more effective at reducing childhood obesity than physical activity, a new study has found.

The study, undertaken by researchers from the universities of Newcastle and Wollongong, found that targeting parents rather than children is the key to combating childhood obesity.

The two-year study, titled Hunter Illawarra Kids Challenge Using Parent Support (HIKCUPS), involved 165 overweight children of primary-school age and their parents, who were divided into three groups.

In the first group, parents underwent a nutrition program in which they were encouraged to change the whole family’s food habits.

In the second group, kids were given physical education training; and in the third, both methods were used.

The results surprised the researchers involved.

“When we started the study, our hypothesis was that the group where both the parents and the kids got treated would do the best, but they actually didn’t,” Professor Clare Collins from the University of Newcastle told AAP.

Instead, the group where the parents were targeted and the kids did not receive any treatment achieved the best result.

Parents key to ending childhood obesity