What's considered obese for a baby? I ask because it seems like everyone I know who has babies pride themselves on how fat they can make themYeah, chubbyness in babies has alwasy been considered a sign of good health. Is there any evidence that chubby babies are more likely develop health problems, or even grow up to be overweight kids?
Baby’s Weight: Is Epigenetics To Blame?It could also be something like Leptin levels in the mother's blood causing the baby to have lower leptin sensitivity. This wouldn't really be "true" epigenetics in the sense of passing down traits due to stuff like DNA methylation and other DNA structure changes.
No one is surprised when the child of an overweight mother becomes overweight or even obese. But scientists at two ARS-funded nutrition research centers are taking a new and closer look at how influences occurring in the womb and perhaps during the first few months of life might affect development of the child’s ability to regulate his or her weight. The child’s body-weight-regulating mechanisms might in fact be harmed during those times by the mother’s own overweight.
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Kartik Shankar, an investigator with the ARS Arkansas Children’s Nutrition Center in Little Rock and an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, looked at weight gains among rat pups whose mothers, called “dams,” were either lean or overweight (from overfeeding) at the time of conception and during pregnancy.
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“Our study strongly suggests that exposure to the mother’s obesity—while in the womb—results in programming of the offspring’s body-weight-control mechanisms,” he says. “The dams’ obesity alone was sufficient to significantly increase the pups’ susceptibility to obesity.”
I only decided to get serious about losing weight after I saw a photo of myself.I do think it can be a good motivator, for sure. The other thread though was just ridiculous though. It was more like, moral panic over junk food itself and the people who ate it. The reality is, you can be skinny and eat junk food, so long as you keep your calorie counts down. The problem, I would imagine, is that it's probably easier to eat a lot of junk food compared to healthy food, for given level of fullness.
50lbs gone for the last two years
Shame does have some value.
Fat is dangerous to me. I am highly attracted to it's taste and mouth feel. Butter is the most supreme fat of them all, followed by the fat of beef. Slightly browned butter is nearly impossible to stop eating, for myself. I can eat stuff with that in it until I'm sick, literally.Geez man, I was defending junk food in the other thread but that's a bit much even for me :P. Obviously a little of the fat 'flavor' can make things more enjoyable to eat. (My understanding is that is an actual 'flavor' along with salty/sweet/bitter/sour and 'umami', which is actually the taste of MSG)
Planet, you're one of the rare lucky ones. Most people are not blessed with demonic metabolisms or spend all of their waking lives at the gym. You may find the concept of obesity alien but in this it is your experience that is the outlier. For most of us, weight control is a struggle, going to the gym is a struggle, suppressing eating binges is a struggle.I think this is what makes these discussions interesting to me.
(And on the third hand, there is a huge selection bias, in that people with zero interest in hard physical activity simply don't enter this field or quit.)
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Could be totally off-base here, I just find it odd that all these parents are posting photos of their kids on facebook bragging that they're 9 months old but fit into clothing made for 18 month olds. I'm not saying that makes their kids obese, I just don't really get it.
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