It's My Mother's Fault

AnninStPaul

"September 4, 2012 — A new study adds to the growing body of evidence that prenatal exposure to maternal cigarette smoking (PEMCS) may be a factor in the worldwide epidemic of obesity.

Adolescents whose mothers smoked while pregnant had a higher body mass index (BMI), had more total body fat, and reported a higher intake of dietary fat than the children of nonsmoking mothers, lead author Amirreza Haghighi, MD, and colleagues report in an article published online September 3 in the Archives of General Psychiatry."

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/770350?src=nldne

davidjohnb17

Curse you mother!

126siany

"September 4, 2012 — A new study adds to the growing body of evidence that prenatal exposure to maternal cigarette smoking (PEMCS) may be a factor in the worldwide epidemic of obesity.

Adolescents whose mothers smoked while pregnant had a higher body mass index (BMI), had more total body fat, and reported a higher intake of dietary fat than the children of nonsmoking mothers, lead author Amirreza Haghighi, MD, and colleagues report in an article published online September 3 in the Archives of General Psychiatry."

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/770350?src=nldne

Without seeing the entire study, I'd guess this is because smoking is correlated with other unhealthy habits, like poor diet.

AnninStPaul

"September 4, 2012 — A new study adds to the growing body of evidence that prenatal exposure to maternal cigarette smoking (PEMCS) may be a factor in the worldwide epidemic of obesity.

Adolescents whose mothers smoked while pregnant had a higher body mass index (BMI), had more total body fat, and reported a higher intake of dietary fat than the children of nonsmoking mothers, lead author Amirreza Haghighi, MD, and colleagues report in an article published online September 3 in the Archives of General Psychiatry."

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/770350?src=nldne

Without seeing the entire study, I'd guess this is because smoking is correlated with other unhealthy habits, like poor diet.

Actually, they corrected for socio-economic status and maternal BMI.

"These differences "remained virtually unchanged after additional adjusting for variables frequently associated with maternal cigarette smoking during pregnancy and implicated on their own in increasing the risk for obesity (ie, lower birth weight, shorter duration [or lack of] breastfeeding, and lower SES)," the authors write. "They also remained virtually unchanged after additional adjusting for maternal BMI, a known risk factor for offspring. Thus, it appears that the association between PEMCS and greater adiposity is independent of these factors and, as such, may be specific to maternal cigarette smoking."

amselby81

Without seeing the entire study, I'd guess this is because smoking is correlated with other unhealthy habits, like poor diet.

This is my guess too. My mom smokes while pregnant. She made lots of other unhealthy choices too, and did not raise us to eat healthy. She and my dad did not eat a well rounded diet and they were not active. That lifestyle rubbed off on myself and my brother. I mean, that's all we saw, so why would we think there was anything wrong with it.