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.
But isn’t America starving and in poverty?
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.
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
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.
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.
This BS is getting pretty thick!
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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.
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.
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.
Oh for pete’s sake, nine month old babies put on fat just before they walk. The walking and activity will slim them out to elegant three year olds/
Oh for pete’s sake, nine month old babies put on fat just before they walk. The walking and activity will slim them out to elegant three year olds/
Why measure against two year olds, why not four? (Because 2-4 is where kids really get active, sometimes distressingly so, and are likely to burn that fat off).
Man made formulas are to blame along with ignorant moms that stick bottles into squawking mouths every 2 hrs. Try a little water in between feedings. Dump the formulas for 1% cows milk at 6 months.