Posted on 04/22/2011 9:49:13 PM PDT by neverdem
Interesting. With our second child my wife had a constant craving for ice cream and ate darn near a pint a day. Second child is an ice cream fiend.
Interesting. Thank you.
reminds me of a saying my dead relatives used to say...
fat as a baby, fat to the grave
thin as a baby, thin to the grave.
If this article is correct, it would appear my relatives’ saying is false. Or maybe I’m remembering it wrong. maybe the saying was fat as a baby, thin to the grave. thin as a baby, fat to the grave.
It is absolutely nuts to "diet" while pregnant -- yet many American women do, as the above excerpt notes.
If more women knew that staying skinny and chic while pregnant would doom their children to obesity, what would they do?
I'm afraid that many, given the choice, would choose not to have the child at all.
Studies are like, well you know, everybody has one. I don’t buy this for a minute. First of all, I cannot imagine there are that many pregnant women following an Atkins type diet. Self reporting of what people eat is notoriously unreliable.
Second, I have known many extremely chubby babies who thinned out at about age 3 and were slender all through childhood and into their teen years. I have also known thin babies and kids who suddenly gain weight at about age 7 and struggle with their weight until their teen years. This latter phenomenon is seen in children with a strong family history of type 2 diabetes.
There must be a lot of loose grant money out there for anything to do with our current obsession with weight.
To this day, neither of the twins will touch celery.
Actually the correlation between fatness as a child and fatness as an adult is about zero. You are not more likely to be fat as an adult if you are fat as a child.
That being said, no matter what you weigh as a child you are probably going to be chubby as an adult. That’s the way it is now.
To see what it used to be like go to youtube and look at the old videos of Dick Clark’s American Bandstand and the old Soul Train videos. Compare the BMI of those kids with the average high school student today. Big difference. It is amazing how thin teens were 40 years ago.
Government food?
I weighed 99 pounds when I got pregnant, I ate like a horse.
I weighed 164 pounds when I gave birth.
My kid was 8.1 pounds at birth.
He was a beer belly dude til his 15th year,
He is now 5’ 10” and weighs 129, his weight has not changed in two years and he’s built just like me, and my Mom and Dad before me.
Go figure.
It’s not that women are dieting during pregnancy because of vanity. They come under a LOT of pressure from their doctors to keep the weight gain to under 35 pounds. Sometimes a husband puts pressure on too, as he might be afraid he’s going to be losing his sexy wife forever.
When you consider that a pregnant woman is carrying around 7 pounds of baby, an additional two pounds in each breast, a large uterus, the placenta and products of conception, and a lot of water weight, that 35-pound gain can include very little fat. It’s darned hard keeping the weight off, especially when nature programs us to be voracious during pregnancy. Of course some women mistakenly turn to any diet that will help them eat without putting on a ton of weight.
Explains Cher’s “daughter.”
I have noticed that as well. There used to be all these slender young people. Getting plump was for the middle aged. Even in the 1960s, our school photos show virtually no fat kids.
Also, on a historical film, there was an early film from New York in the 1900s. The crowds walking in the streets looked so slim, that the view of the film seemed distored. But it was not, as one could see by looking at the buildings - they were the same as now.
So, there must be a different reason for fat welfare moms producing fat chilrun who procuce fat chilrun.
Amen.
Huh !!!
It would be nice to see actual research to back claim that up. Sounds like BS
Most women I know who are pregnant tend to stop worrying about what and how much they eat altogether.
Eating for "two" attitude
I don’t buy it either. EVERY woman I know *stops* dieting the second she finds out she’s pregnant.
And what about morning sickness? I lost 10 pounds with my daughter in the first trimester, then gained back 35 - for a total of 25 pound pregnancy gain.
My daughter is very sick at the moment and has lost ten pounds in the last 2 weeks. She’s not dieting. She’s not starving herself. She’s a victim of a natural biological process. For a solid week she was lucky if she could hold down water and broth.
If this theory is true, then every woman who has long-term morning sickness - lasting throughout the majority of the pregnancy - will produce a fat person.
I do love the jab at Atkins. How would a woman who’s eating a large amount of protein, lots of fats and salads be “dieting”? No, she’d just be restricting carbs. She could actually be having a much larger caloric intake than someone on a “healthy” pyramid diet.
My daughter has gotten chubby (before she got pregnant) over the last year because she drank 5 Caramel Mocha Frappuccinos a day for two months before she bothered to look and saw that she was getting 2000 calories a day from just that. (20 pounds)
She was fat as a baby ( I was giving her too much juice), thin as a child, fit as a teen and is now chubby because she didn’t pay attention for a few months while she was in the process of a move and a house remodel.
It’s the western diet that is making us fat. It’s sweet drinks that make us fat. It’s the advice of nutritionists that’s making us fat. It’s the fact that we have this weird, unnatural fear of missing a meal that’s making us fat. It’s the fact that we sit all day that’s making us fat. It’s the fact that our primary work and entertainment is sedentary that’s making us fat.
After 7 years of steadily gaining weight, I’ve lost 45 pounds since I’ve thrown ALL of the modern-day nutritional advice out the window and only have 20 pounds to go to be at an ideal weight for me.
I’ve got old photos of my parents and grandparents and their siblings...when they were 12 years old and younger. They were poor. And they were as skinny as the starving people in the nazi concentration camp photos...not exaggerating. skeletons! biggest part of their legs were their knees. They all seemed to have really dark brown skin too...and wore clothes 3 sizes too big worn out with patches. My generation and younger everyone seems to have pasty pale skin and plump bodies and snug fitting brand new clothes...actually the girls nowdays wear clothes that are way too small.
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