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.
Explains Cher’s “daughter.”
So, there must be a different reason for fat welfare moms producing fat chilrun who procuce fat chilrun.
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 am old enough to remember when an obese person was a rarity. So was someone who was “stick-thin.” We ate a widely varied, mostly-unprocessed diet containing lots of meats, fats, dairy and poultry products, and natural starches, like potatoes and yams. Desserts were most often fruits, with an occasional sweet pastry for holidays and special occasions. We were all what was considered “normal,” in those days. A layer of fat under our skin of roughly one to two inches. A svelte movie starlet was about a size 12 or 14. Very few of us were emaciated, and very few were obese. Diabetes was RARE.
My next to youngest, 17 year old son, had outgrown the ‘dress’ pants he was to wear today for Easter. He is 6’3 and 165lbs, he has 31 in waist and 36 inseam (try finding pants/jeans for that!). He was 10 lbs at birth; and was off the chart at his first birthday. By his second birthday he was average in weight (started running...never walked) and has been average to below average ever since. He is a HS athlete (basketball, baseball) so he is physically active/fit. He is at that point where he can eat a full meal; and a second one (like he did today...our relative didn’t want to ‘put away leftovers’) then come home and eat two bowls of cheerios before bed.
However, my husband and his whole family are overweight. I can also say that the reason they are overweight is because they eat a lot. It is really that simple.
My girls and I are constantly mad because my husband will eat everything in the house. We have to hide food, so it is there when we want to eat it.
I really bought into the whole "it's just my genes" thing, until I spent time around heavy people. I had no idea that a family could put away that much food.
I have never had to diet or watch what I eat, and I also have a complete sweet tooth. However, I don't gorge myself to death, because I don't like feeling overly full.
I really think that is the big difference between skinny and fat people. They don't stop until they can't fit another bite. I stop way before that, because I hate that feeling.