Early lifestyle factors such as eating breakfast and getting enough sleep in childhood could predict whether or not a child will become obese according to new UK research. Carried out by a team from University College London (UCL), the research is the first in the UK to look at the patterns of body mass index (BMI) weight in the first 10 years of a child’s life, and which lifestyle factors appear to affect and predict weight gain. To carry out their research the team used data from Millennium Cohort Study, a study of children born into 19,244 families in the UK between September 2000 and January 2002.