Posted on 01/26/2005 5:00:27 PM PST by neverdem
FINDINGS
Children of overweight mothers are 15 times as likely to be obese by age 6 as children of lean mothers, researchers said yesterday.
The children start piling on pounds at age 3, a team at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania found. "We found dramatic increases in body fat between ages 3 and 6," said Robert I. Berkowitz, who led the study. "We should be doing prevention and treatment programs at a much earlier age."
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Blood Thinner Promising For Heart-Attack Survival
A large new study found that a blood-thinning drug available in Europe and Asia improves the chances of surviving a heart attack, while a simple, sugar-based solution that once looked promising does not help.
The mixed results involve two low-tech treatments that researchers hoped could help ease the global burden of heart attacks, which kill more than 7 million people worldwide each year -- at least half of them in developing countries. The research was conducted on more than 20,000 people in India, China and Latin America.
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The study is in the current Journal of the American Medical Association.
Exposure to Sibling Found to Boost Immunity
Exposure to a younger sibling's infections during the first six years of life helps the elder child's immune system develop and cuts the risk of multiple sclerosis later on, Australian researchers reported.
The researchers looked at the life histories of 136 adults with multiple sclerosis and compared them with those of 272 who did not have the disease.
Those who as children had up to five years of contact with a younger sibling had an 88 percent lower risk of multiple sclerosis. Those with one to three years of exposure had a 43 percent reduced risk.
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This article is also in JAMA.
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Well duh! Just walk into any Wal-Mart and you'll see the evidence waddling before your eyes.
Before you marry the daughter, take a long look at the mom.
Absolutely!
That was pretty obvious.... it's like stating that precipitation can only occur if there are clouds. And who is funding these studies anyway?
What about kids of obese dads?
I sat at a meeting with ten older women. Only two were fit and trim. All eight of the overweight women were teachers. The other two were not teachers.
Hey. I still think that "diet" soda makes people fat --look at all the diet soda that they drink.
No, I don't believe that but it shows how we need to be cautious in evaluating what causes conditions.
I'd say alert the medical media --> FAT MAN HAS BABY !
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Probably depends on whether he lives with them or not. But it might be interesting to find out. If you can arrange five million in funding I will do a study. :)
This is about as newsworthy as "Children of [black, pick your color] mothers are more likely to be [black]. Obesity is largely a reflection of a selected life style.
I am an obese person with 3 children. Although I am having a devil of a time breaking my own terrible eating habits, I am teaching my children the right way to eat and actually teling them that mommy is not eating healthy all the time, but that I hope they can do better than I can. The older ones know how to read food lables for sugar and fat and eat their fruit and veggies like they should. No fast food or soda.
They are 9, 8 and 5 years old and I can see ribs on all of them! Their doctor says they are just right for weight.
It would be easy to give them tater tots and hot dogs for meals, but it just isn't the right thing to do.
LOL - That's what I love about my son-in-law: he says that's why he married my daughter ;-)
Bad eating habits tend to run in families.
I'm just curious, were you overweight as a child?
Fat people have always urged me to eat, even those who aren't my relatives. I can understand what it must be like to be raised by one. Like they say, nothin' says lovin' like somethin' from the oven. Food=love.
My dad told me that. It's been known for centuries. Metabolism has a genetic component.
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