Posted on 01/01/2011 2:19:42 PM PST by Former Fetus
The path toward obesity starts at a young age - even before babies transition to a solid diet, according to a new study.
Almost one-third of 9-month-olds are obese or overweight, as are 34 percent of 2-year-olds, according to the research, which looked at a nationally representative sample of children born in 2001. The study is one of the first to measure weight in the same group of very young children over time, said lead researcher Brian Moss, a sociologist at Wayne State University in Detroit. The results showed that starting out heavy puts kids on a trajectory to stay that way.
"If you were overweight at nine months old, it really kind of sets the stage for you to remain overweight at two years," Moss told LiveScience.
Tracking obesity
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), childhood obesity has tripled over the last three decades. In 2008, 19.6 percent of kids between the ages of 6 and 11 were obese.
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Genetically engineered crops.
The fattest baby I ever personally saw was STRICTLY breastfed.
Fat is also necessary for the brain development—that is why government changed their advice about 2% milk only AFTER two years of age.
The brain growth is stunted if children do not get enough fat. It is crucial.
I think the government is trying to create sickly citizens—always...they are bought off by crony capitalism.....and they have motive.
Also, it is interesting that they are mum about all the toxins they recommend for a ONE DAY OLD HEALTHY INFANT! Any pediatrician that gives the Hep B shot to non sick babies should be put in prison. It is common knowledge that ALL vaccines have toxins and that with infants—they are particularly vulnerable when they are immature because they have no brain barrier that can protect their brains from being invaded by injected toxins.
Criminal!
Have they done any longitudinal studies beyond 2 year olds? At 9 months I was a porker, as was my daughter. As we each matured, we slimmed out. I was never heavy again until my pregnancies.
I’m personally getting more than a little tired of these university researchers who come to some headline grabbing conclusion, then as it’s published, the conclusion becoming accepted without question.
Michelle Obama’s got partisan media shills too.
Imho, babies SHOULD be a bit chubby. It’s healthy, and is no indication of future weight issues at all. I was a chubby baby, and was extremely thin as I grew older. In my experience ( somewhat limited & anecdotal) thin babies are often chubby as they reach the age of around 3 or more, and can have lifelong weight problems.
TC, do you see any relationship between a “chubby” baby and an overweight adult? I don’t. Babies should have nicely rounded bodies and faces, or I would suspect they are not getting proper nutrition.
Exactly! Good grief. Some in our society seem to have lost every particle of what common sense they may have had.
This BS is getting pretty thick!
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I agree, they make an awful mess!
No, I don't. Most of my children were quite chubby as babies, but none of our various doctors ever considered one "overweight." My mother couldn't assimilate the idea that a baby who was exclusively nursing was very unlikely to have a weight problem, though.
One of the children has a weight problem now, in his teens. I attribute this to his preferring, as his mother does, reading and FReeping (or equivalent) and crafts and puzzles to being outside exercising. Vanity keeps me from being overweight, but this child is so proud of his intelligence that he doesn't seem to mind his avoirdupois. When he puts on his suit for debate tournaments, he looks like a traditional Southern politician, biscuits and gravy every morning at the diner ...
Years ago I remember reading some “study” showing babies or infants that were obese tended toward obesity later in life. The theory was that they developed more fat cells as infants and while you can lose fat there remained an excess number of fat cells thus making losing weight harder...
Some babies have those adorable little fat rolls that you just want to pinch! Gosh, I love them. All babies can be rolly polly at 9 months. Once they start walking, they start running. Running here, running there, running everywhere and burn off the weight. Who in the world wants to look at some skinny baby and announce that is normal. Well fed is a sign of health in infants. Want to see an unhealthy baby, look at the third world countries. I guess that is going to become our new Gerber babies.
... not proved, as is the case with so much else. A correlation is observed, a possible causal relationship is suggested, and nobody emphasized that the correlation might be empirically correct, but the possible cause is just a guess.
They have brainwashed parents into all sorts of things that will harm their children. It’s really frightening.
I didn’t nurse my 3 kids, not one ever had a food allergy, ear tubes, asthma, never even a flu shot, etc. All 3 were chunks, loved it. All three are athletes and are still healthy as can be. Their combined ped. medical records is less than 2 inches thick. They have proved opposite EVERY so called formula/breast milk study.
Amen to that!
Babies are normally fat. That is what they do the first year of their life. It is a survival adaptation.
Thought I can say I have seen some that are (abnormally fat) which is just bad parenting.
It is extremely frightening. No one can use logic and reason any more because they have been given a bunch of lies as their foundation of beliefs. Lies have been made into facts by the cultural Marxists.
We need to get back to Classical thinking and the Christian paradigm.
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