Study suggests the womb may be key to breaking cycle of fat, diabetes

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: Phoenix86

Originally posted by: spidey07
Why is this so surprising? Did this study not point out the obvious that the baby continues the traits of it's mother? Is this really that surprising?

Still missing it.

It's not the traits of the mother, it's the heath during pregnancy.

That means a "fat" person can still give birth to a "non-fat" child, because it's not a trait/gene. That person just has to be healthy during the actual pregnancy.

It's a critically important difference to people who are currently overweight and might be sold on the idea that there's nothing they can do to prevent passing the "fat gene" to their children.

What the hell? I feel like i'm talking to a brick wall.

Fat when pregnant = fat kid. Fat moms give birth to fat kids, is this really that difficult to understand? This study proves it yet again.

I really thought this was common sense, I guess not. It's like telling pregnant women not to drink or do crack, otherwise they'll have alcoholic/crack kids. It's freaking common sense. Fat moms produce fat kids.

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Banging my head through the screen. How is this not common knowledge? That the mom's blood sugar or chemistry in the womb can affect their development? Even at the cellular level it all makes perfect sense. Put a fat pregnant gerbil with all the food she can eat, guess what? The babies will be fat.

Put a fat health gerbil in a cage, make her lose weight, then get her pregnant and surprise, surprise, the kids aren't fat and much healthier. Shocking, this common sense thing.

 

[nanette1985]

As a mom (grandmother) I think this is questionable. You just have to look at the moms you know and their kids. Any given mom can have some skinny kids, some fat kids, some in between. Some skinny kids get fat as they age, some kids start fat but thin out as they grow. So it takes years to know for sure what weight the kid will actually be. Throw in things like hyperemesis - if this theory were true all moms with hyperemesis would have skinny kids. But they don't.

No objection to encouraging health in pregnant women, but this just sounds like a scare tactic to me.