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    personally i wish people wouldn't get pregnant when they're obese, as i read that it increases the baby's chances of becoming obese, and not just because of the environment - it affects the baby in the womb. i wouldn't be surprised if this is a major contributing factor in childhood obesity.

    perhaps it's common (just wondering!) even for a mother who is overweight (not even obese) when she's pregnant (or has a history of it even?) to end up with an overweight or obese child... the child enters a society where food (especially unhealthy food) is everywhere along with the bombardment of advertisement and other influences, but his/her fat cells are *already* altered due to the mother during pregnancy. so the child is less protected against all of the food in their environment and less able to get rid of all the excess energy effectively and it's enough to make the child obese.

    i was thinking about this when an overweight someone from work a long time ago was talking about her obese daughter and how she just didn't understand how it had happened. the kid was attending after school and before school programs that regularly offered things like candy and donuts. but that wouldn't have made me fat as a child. i remained a stick until puberty - that was when all the food started affecting me, though it *still* didn't make me obese.

    basically all the food/societal influences make for a world where you have a "first generation" where a significant percentage eventually succumbs to being overweight, and they produce a second generation that is more vulnerable to it, and it just escalates by generation. i read also that the trend in the 80s/90s towards more 'low fat' food (which was often all high carb) and more and more processed foods along with that terrible food pyramid that instructed people they should be eating several loaves of bread every day (yes, i'm exaggerating), really contributed to the weight problem in society.

    also to make matters worse, a generation of children who are obese and get stuff like type 2 diabetes because of it in childhood, and then have heart attacks or strokes in their 30s is kind of a failed generation... without a turn around, nature will eliminate the highly unhealthy for us.
    Last edited by inumbra; 10-25-2015 at 05:59 PM.

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