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Obesity Epidemic Spreads to Infants? - It seems that children are now born fat. To quote the article: "Rates of overweight are increasing in very young children, even infants, from primarily middle-class families," wrote Matthew Gillman, M.D., of Harvard Medical School, and colleagues.

How do you fight obesity in the unborn/newly born? Is there a new prenatal exercise routine I don’t know about?
posted by tekrat to health at 4:30 P.M. EST     (8 Comments)

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posted by pink_slip at 10:00 A.M. EST on Fri Aug 11, 2006     #

That was an interesting article.

I think part of the problem is an education issue. So many people just feed a baby when it cries instead of trying other things like rocking or singing.

I have a friend with a very big baby (his weight is off the charts) and they are constantly feeding the kid. It is easier to just pop a bottle in his mouth then spend time comforting him. It is really sad.
posted by MaumeeMom at 11:46 A.M. EST on Fri Aug 11, 2006     #

Problems of obesity to children goes back to their parents. Now before some of you go ape on me, I am not including genetics or health-related problems. I am referring to lazy parents, lack of family-togetherness of exercising or activities, lack of teaching the kids of importance to physical education (it's not the school's responsibility to do so but to enhance), driving the car to everywhere when riding a bike, riding a bus or walking once in awhile is the key to physical, avoid fast food, poor decisions on buying proper food at grocery stores, cut down TV/internet/video games times, lack of making the kids feel confidence of themselves and build their self-esteem......do I need to continue on this topic?
posted by HolyHolyToledo at 03:04 P.M. EST on Fri Aug 11, 2006     #

No.
posted by Darkseid at 05:57 A.M. EST on Mon Aug 14, 2006     #

I smell bullshit where that article's concerned. Just another example of the media working with doctors and their endless 'studies' to create a 'crisis' where there isn't one. How did we ever survive back in the fifties before the nanny state?
posted by Darkseid at 06:00 A.M. EST on Mon Aug 14, 2006     #

What do you bet a pill is coming out for overweight babies? I smell a work up for a new pharmaceutical release of another wonder drug
posted by katie82640 at 04:12 P.M. EST on Mon Aug 14, 2006     #

Okay, I read the article, but this is what I saw...

"The unadjusted prevalence of overweight rose from 3.4% to 5.9% for children younger than six months, from 7.5% to 9.0% for those six to 12 months old, from 10.3% to 12.3% for those 12 to 24 months, from 5.4% to 10.6% for children 24 to 36 months, and from 5.9% to 10.3% for those 36 to 72 months. Adjusting for ethnicity yielded similar results."


so, infants, the ones under 6months, had a 2.4% increase? That's it? It seems kinda small... and maybe it just means that mothers are providing more food and/or nutrition to their unborn child so they're born a bit bigger?

But come on, the big news is the jump from 5.4% to 10.6% for children 24 to 36 months, and from 5.9% to 10.3% for those 36 to 72 months... that's nearly double, and that has to be from diet/exercise trends in the child, but most likely from diet.

Obestiy in Infants is a non-issue here. Childhood obesity is the issue.
posted by timault at 04:42 P.M. EST on Mon Aug 14, 2006     #

Bingo timault. Once we get past the BIRTH weight,,,then we get into diet.

You very much smart :-)

This is an old argument. Breast feeding, protein intake vs. fat calories etc.

I still highly suspect some kind of pharmaceutical windfall that's - (sarcasm on) ONCE AGAIN - unrelated to our great unbiased reporting in Amerca.

(sarcasm off)
posted by katie82640 at 10:40 P.M. EST on Mon Aug 14, 2006     #

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