According to a new report, American people with children aged 18 years or younger are less likely to work out and more likely to be overweight or obese.

The report said that 59,000 interviews with Americans, aged 18 to 50 disclosed that 28% of parents whose children were aged between 0 to 4 worked out around 30 minutes on a daily basis "no days per week" as against about 25% of those without kids.

The report added that 26.5% of parents having children aged 5- to 18 years are most prone to obesity and 35.8% fell under the overweight category.

Parents with children at home are also less likely to be normal weight than are those adults with no child at home.

Boffins warned that apart from being a drain on health care costs, obesity could affect their children too - increasing their chances of obesity in adulthood. (With Inputs from Agencies)