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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And therefore, we must have constant government monitoring of every child, from birth, so that his trajectory can be guided for the greater good of the collective.
Knowledge shall set you free!
But isn’t America starving and in poverty?
Well, I can see you’re feisty this New Year. Bwahahaha!!
And therefore to justify earlier and more comprehensive interventions by the government. You don't think this is about providing useful information to parents, do you?
And Happy New Year to y'all, too!
You buy the bilge that we’re a nation of pigs. I don’t. Kids are chubby until about 2. It’s called BABY FAT. Children need less TV, less Wii, less computer games, less X-Box and more time PLAYING.
In my opinion, it’s good for babies to have some extra flesh. My Bill weighed 30 lbs. at a year old, and then he started running and didn’t weigh 30 lbs. again until he was 4.
I don’t even know what Francisco weighs, at 19 months, but he’s pleasantly squishy ;-).
I agree. I think that they need that extra padding. My 3 were chubby babies until they walked. All 3 are now slender adults.
This looks like a "nursing is the ONLY way to go" study....
I’m guessing that giving babies fruit juice doesn’t help, either. The sugar promotes insulin spikes, which promote fat storage.
You bet they are! And if, heaven forbid!, they get sick they'll need that fat.
Obviously these toddlers are swilling out on breast milk and baby formula. Damn gluttons, they should move around more and get off their butts, etc. etc.
Or we can perhaps start to re-evaluate the utterly failed paradigm(s) that have controlled our thinking about health, weight regulation and food for the last 40 years or so.
Some good starting points if you want to start the new year with losing weight:
“The inanity of overeating”
http://www.garytaubes.com/2010/12/inanity-of-overeating/
Excerpt:
“Now, if you gain 40 pounds of fat over 20 years, that’s an average of two pounds of excess fat accumulation every year. Since a pound of fat is roughly equal to 3500 calories, this means you accumulate roughly 7000 calories worth of fat every year. Divide that 7000 by 365 and you get the number of calories of fat you stored each day and never burned – roughly 19 calories. Let’s round up to 20 calories, so we have a nice round number. (In the new book I discuss this issue in a chapter called “The Significance of Twenty Calories a Day.”)
So now the question: if all you have to do to become obese is store 20 extra calories each day on average in your fat tissue — 20 calories that you don’t mobilize and burn — what does overeating have to do with it? And why aren’t we all fat? Twenty calories, after all, is a bite or two of food, a swallow or two of soda or fruit juice or milk or beer. It is an absolutely trivial amount of overeating that the body then chooses, for reasons we’ll have to discuss at some point, not to expend, but to store as fat instead.”
“Scientists now saying carbs, not fat, are to blame for America’s obesity epidemic”
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/dec/20/health/la-he-carbs-20101220
Professor Lustig´s hit Youtube lecture:
http://www.uctv.tv/search-details.aspx?showID=16717
I’m with you, this sounds like a setup for gubmint manipulation of food supplies.
Probably one major factor. Even better, all that sugar is a double whammy:
- Fructose for, well, many things. Like building up insulin resistance over time, etc.
(http://www.uctv.tv/search-details.aspx?showID=16717)
- Glucose for getting that insulin going, driving fat storage.
Fruit juices and purées are just soda / desserts with added vitamin C, that´s pretty much what you need to know.
Gotta keep them 9 month olds away from them Big Macs.
“I’m with you, this sounds like a setup for gubmint manipulation of food supplies.”
On the contrary. Take a look at this sentence from the article:
“According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), childhood obesity has tripled over the last three decades.”
What happened roughly three decades ago, at the start point of the epidemic? Why, we got the wonderful USDA nutritional goals for the United States.
http://www.nutritionjrnl.com/article/S0899-9007(10)00289-3/abstract
As with most really bad things, the good old Federal government lurks behind the curtain. The obesity epidemic is no exception.
>> And therefore, we must have constant government monitoring of every child, from birth...
That is precisely their goal.
That's done already. The new "Food safety bill" takes care of that...
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