[jongaltsr]

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.

[aruanan]

Babies are normally fat. That is what they do the first year of their life. It is a survival adaptation.

Well, here's a disturbing thing. If you have enough excess energy in the diet to trigger fat stem cells to make more fat cells to store it, those fat cells are not lost (except through liposuction) and don't die until you do. If you can get a kid through adolescence without too much fat growth, you'll have greatly increased the likelihood that he won't be obese as an adult. A tidbit from a graduate level Nutrition through the Life Cycle course.