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nannyde 08:08 AM 02-07-2011
Originally Posted by Mrs.Ky:
Children are obese NOT because of how they ate as infants because parents today choose to feed their child mcdonalds every night for dinner or give them JUNK for snack. My Son was a huge baby 30 pounds at 12 months now he is a 60 pound soon to be 8 year old he is a skinny mini because I do not let them eat junk and go to mcdonalds.
Our country is facing an obesity epidemic in our children that is so profound that it will change our longevity and our destiny as a human race if we do not get a handle on it and begin to deal with it from prenatal to adulthood.

Junk food is ONE of the contributors to our current crisis. Inactivity, low physical activity, severe lack of sleep, corn based foods, calcium deprivation, sugar drinks, fingertip playing toys/electronics, etc... are some of the perfect storm we are facing now with this health crisis.

If you are interested just google "obesity in infants" to see the current research. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0406093632.htm

By analyzing the electronic medical records of babies seen for routine "well-child" visits to the UTMB pediatric clinic, the investigators found that about 16 percent of 6-month-olds fit the study's criterion for obesity -- a weight-for-length ratio that put them in the top 5 percent of all babies in their age group. (Weight for length was used instead of the conventional body mass index because BMI is based on weight and height as measured while standing, which neither 6-month-olds nor 24-month-olds can do well enough to measure.) Further analysis of the records indicated that obese 2-year-olds were much more likely to have been obese at 6 months than 2-year-olds who were not obese.
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