Verlo Mattress Warns That Hand-me Down Mattresses Lead to Weight Problems for Kids

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Verlo Mattress Warns That Hand-me Down Mattresses Lead to Weight Problems for Kids

FORT ATKINSON, Wis., Feb. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Parents often hand down worn out mattresses to children and older mattresses rarely sleep well. A new medical study says children who sleep poorly are four times more likely to be obese.

The study, published in the February issue of Pediatrics, a medical journal, concluded that kids who had the shortest sleep and a disorganized sleep schedule had more than a fourfold increase in the risk of being obese.

"Parents often splurge on a higher quality mattress for themselves and hand down the worn out mattress for the kids," says Kurt Schusterman, Verlo Mattress Factory Stores CEO. "People usually buy a mattress only when it wears out so by handing the kids an old mattress they are depriving them of the important sleep growing kids need."

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