Fat moms = fat kids??

bcattoes
bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Someone posted something about overweight parents being more likely to have overweight children no too long ago. I was reminded of that when I read the article below. Losing weight before getting pregnant just might lower the chances that your children will get fat.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_130763.html

Excerpt:
Mothers' Weight-Loss Surgery Linked to Kids' Heart Health
MONDAY, Oct. 29 (HealthDay News) -- Children born to mothers who have had weight-loss surgery and lost a large amount of weight may have better heart health than their brothers or sisters who were born before their mothers lost the excess weight, a new study suggests.

This is likely because the weight loss and metabolic changes experienced by women after weight-loss surgery have a positive effect on inflammatory-disease-related genes in their children, said researchers from Laval University in Quebec City, Canada.
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  • SoViLicious
    SoViLicious Posts: 2,633 Member
    Mine are both healthy and fit. What will keep them that way is what i am doing now.
  • holidaydra
    holidaydra Posts: 4
    For real?! @_@ Are you sure this is not a troll post?!
  • wildapril
    wildapril Posts: 97 Member
    My half brother and his wife are overweight, and have been for the majority of their lives. Their two children are both overweight as well, and while it might have to do with genes, it also has to do with their habits. Half of their facebook posts have to do with food- cupcakes, normal cakes, fried onions, beer, huge pizzas ... they love unhealthy food, and they and their children consume it in large amounts.
  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    Mine are both healthy and fit. What will keep them that way is what i am doing now.

    I don't know if you read the article or not, but the fact that your children are currently fit is not the point. The study was on the genes of the children. Specifically on the difference in the genetics of siblings born to the same parent but one (or more) born when the mother was obese and the other(s) born after she lost weight.
  • SoViLicious
    SoViLicious Posts: 2,633 Member
    Mine are both healthy and fit. What will keep them that way is what i am doing now.

    I don't know if you read the article or not, but the fact that your children are currently fit is not the point. The study was on the genes of the children. Specifically on the difference in the genetics of siblings born to the same parent but one (or more) born when the mother was obese and the other(s) born after she lost weight.

    What matters to me is that they are not now and I make sure that as long as I care for them they don't become.
  • RenewedRunner
    RenewedRunner Posts: 423 Member
    You would *assume* there is a connection because what the parents eat/do, the children tend to follow.

    However, research needs to prove or disprove this.

    My kids are super skinny, like their father. My husband eats garbage, drinks like a Soldier (he is one), and his current unit hardly ever does PT. DH can still knock out a 7 minute mile no problems and is still within healthy range for his weight and height. Of course his liver is probably 2 beers away from shut down....

    So what effect does genetics from the OTHER parent have on predicting this, not just the mother?? 50% of the kids are me, but 50% are not. And right now, they both seem to follow their dad in height/weight.
  • SoViLicious
    SoViLicious Posts: 2,633 Member
    Mine are both healthy and fit. What will keep them that way is what i am doing now.

    I don't know if you read the article or not, but the fact that your children are currently fit is not the point. The study was on the genes of the children. Specifically on the difference in the genetics of siblings born to the same parent but one (or more) born when the mother was obese and the other(s) born after she lost weight.

    I am going to read it during lunch. Thanks for the article.
  • penrbrown
    penrbrown Posts: 2,685 Member
    As personal anecdotes go - my mother was a skinny rail and I was fat.

    So the real question should be; Do skinny parents raise fat kids?
  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    For real?! @_@ Are you sure this is not a troll post?!

    It's an article published by the National Institute of Health (NIH) re: study results presented at the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress. So, yeah. Just trolling.
  • RenewedRunner
    RenewedRunner Posts: 423 Member
    i personally don't think any woman more than 40 pounds overweight has any business being pregnant in the first place. it's selfish and irresponsible.

    young women, if you want to have children someday take care of your body now and get in shape.


    Umm what is the "selfish and irresponsible" line of reasoning here?
  • SoViLicious
    SoViLicious Posts: 2,633 Member
    i personally don't think any woman more than 40 pounds overweight has any business being pregnant in the first place. it's selfish and irresponsible.

    young women, if you want to have children someday take care of your body now and get in shape.

    I am going to try not to tell you off. Are you a doctor? Have you spoken to a doctor? According to the BMI I am supposed to be 115lbs so 40bls over weight is 155. You are saying a woman 155bs should not be pregnant and is irresponsible. That is asinine. get me some facts and then i will listen.
  • SoViLicious
    SoViLicious Posts: 2,633 Member
    i personally don't think any woman more than 40 pounds overweight has any business being pregnant in the first place. it's selfish and irresponsible.

    young women, if you want to have children someday take care of your body now and get in shape.

    No i have to come back.. You are cray! What the hell are you smoking. Maybe you had too much Halloween candy?
  • akgordoa
    akgordoa Posts: 55
    There is no such thing as a fat gene. Your genetics have little to nothing to do with how fat you are or can be. My mother is obese. Has been all her life. I may have been the chubby girl growing up, but I never have been fat due to something out of my control. It's the habits and choices you make with food and exercise that really matter.
  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    i personally don't think any woman more than 40 pounds overweight has any business being pregnant in the first place. it's selfish and irresponsible.

    young women, if you want to have children someday take care of your body now and get in shape.

    Be careful that you don't fall off that high horse and break a bone.
  • Cyndi1
    Cyndi1 Posts: 484 Member
    i personally don't think any woman more than 40 pounds overweight has any business being pregnant in the first place. it's selfish and irresponsible.

    young women, if you want to have children someday take care of your body now and get in shape.


    Are you serious???? we shouldnt judge on size of a person and them wanting kids... fitness is not some thing that everyone is concern with nor healthy eating... it choices. It's no difference then people who keep a clean house or people who couldnt careless... their lives they own it.... remember we are all different for a reason...
  • SoViLicious
    SoViLicious Posts: 2,633 Member
    i personally don't think any woman more than 40 pounds overweight has any business being pregnant in the first place. it's selfish and irresponsible.

    young women, if you want to have children someday take care of your body now and get in shape.


    Umm what is the "selfish and irresponsible" line of reasoning here?

    This!!!!
  • CherryOnionKiss
    CherryOnionKiss Posts: 376 Member
    mine is healthy and fit. Because I value is health more than mine, I make good activites and food choices for him.
  • Brianna72994
    Brianna72994 Posts: 887
    i personally don't think any woman more than 40 pounds overweight has any business being pregnant in the first place. it's selfish and irresponsible.

    young women, if you want to have children someday take care of your body now and get in shape.

    Not everyone plans on getting pregnant. Sometimes it just happens. What do you suggest they do, get an abortion just because theyre overweight?
  • JoolieW68
    JoolieW68 Posts: 1,879 Member
    i personally don't think any woman more than 40 pounds overweight has any business being pregnant in the first place. it's selfish and irresponsible.

    young women, if you want to have children someday take care of your body now and get in shape.

    Wow....just....wow.

    Judgmental much?
  • itgeekwoman
    itgeekwoman Posts: 804 Member
    i personally don't think any woman more than 40 pounds overweight has any business being pregnant in the first place. it's selfish and irresponsible.

    young women, if you want to have children someday take care of your body now and get in shape.

    Wow! That is something there! I personally believe that everyone has a choice. Had I not had my children when I was morbidly obese at the age of 20,22,and 24, I would never have had children. They are now 18, 20 , 22. All healthy weight children with no problems regarding their health.

    It took me ages to lose the weight and to realize that I needed to lose the weight. I can't have kids now, had to have a hysterectomy at 26.

    Your comment is just uninformed and really obnoxious.
  • LesleeBeAlive
    LesleeBeAlive Posts: 504
    i personally don't think any woman more than 40 pounds overweight has any business being pregnant in the first place. it's selfish and irresponsible.

    young women, if you want to have children someday take care of your body now and get in shape.
  • nanainkent
    nanainkent Posts: 350 Member
    My sister in law and her husband are both thin and can eat what ever they like and do not exercise. Thier daughter was born a chubby baby and became a very overweight child and adult. (morbidly obese). Me and my ex husband are both over weight by 100 and 50 respectively. My daughter and her boyfriend are both obese. Her son is Thin and eats everything and still gains no weight. He is now 16 and still the same. And he plays video games in his free time so he doesn't excercise. Funny when he was younger people and other kids used to tell him he needed to eat something and try to tell us to feed him more. What is funny is he according to the doctors was healthy weight and normal for the charts. There is becoming so many overweight children that it seems it has now become the norm. At least with the ones who were commenting to us.
  • daisiemae123
    daisiemae123 Posts: 277 Member
    i personally don't think any woman more than 40 pounds overweight has any business being pregnant in the first place. it's selfish and irresponsible.

    young women, if you want to have children someday take care of your body now and get in shape.

    I guess that makes me selfish and irresponsible. So, is my wanting to lose weight and be in better shape for him as he grows the selfish or the irresponsible part? Guess I should have had him back in my twenties when I was skinny and partying.
  • SoViLicious
    SoViLicious Posts: 2,633 Member
    i personally don't think any woman more than 40 pounds overweight has any business being pregnant in the first place. it's selfish and irresponsible.

    young women, if you want to have children someday take care of your body now and get in shape.

    Wow! That is something there! I personally believe that everyone has a choice. Had I not had my children when I was morbidly obese at the age of 20,22,and 24, I would never have had children. They are now 18, 20 , 22. All healthy weight children with no problems regarding their health.

    It took me ages to lose the weight and to realize that I needed to lose the weight. I can't have kids now, had to have a hysterectomy at 26.

    Your comment is just uninformed and really obnoxious.

    She is clearly here to start trouble.
  • vim_n_vigor
    vim_n_vigor Posts: 4,089 Member
    My mom is 5'5'' and was 95lbs when she got pregnant with me. She was probably closer to 115 when she had my brother. We are both obese. Our children are all rail thin. Guess there are always exceptions...
  • Rynoman2k3
    Rynoman2k3 Posts: 152 Member
    Have you seen Honey Boo Boo? ... Nuff said...
  • penrbrown
    penrbrown Posts: 2,685 Member
    Have you seen Honey Boo Boo? ... Nuff said...

    Honey Who Who?
  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    There is no such thing as a fat gene. Your genetics have little to nothing to do with how fat you are or can be. My mother is obese. Has been all her life. I may have been the chubby girl growing up, but I never have been fat due to something out of my control. It's the habits and choices you make with food and exercise that really matter.

    Nobody is saying weight gain is out of our control. Some further food for thought:

    http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/obesity-prevention-source/obesity-causes/genes-and-obesity/index.html

    In 2007, researchers using genome-wide association studies identified the first obesity-related gene variants in the so-called "fat mass and obesity-associated" (FTO) gene on chromosome 16. (4, 5) These gene variants are fairly common, and people who carry one have a 20 to 30 percent higher risk of obesity than people who do not. The second obesity-associated gene variant that researchers identified lies on chromosome 18, close to the melanocortin-4 receptor gene (the same gene responsible for a rare form of monogenic obesity).
    ...
    Work on obesity-related gene–environment interactions is still in its infancy. The evidence so far suggests that genetic predisposition is not destiny—many people who carry so-called "obesity genes" do not become overweight. Rather, it seems that eating a healthy diet and getting enough exercise may counteract some of the gene-related obesity risk.
  • AEFidgets
    AEFidgets Posts: 243
    i personally don't think any woman more than 40 pounds overweight has any business being pregnant in the first place. it's selfish and irresponsible.

    young women, if you want to have children someday take care of your body now and get in shape.
    Really? Perhaps we should also prevent pregnancy for anyone with a genetic condition, or an affinity for tattoos, or perhaps for religious or political reasons. Yes that would work, NOT!!!!!!!
  • Brianna72994
    Brianna72994 Posts: 887
    Have you seen Honey Boo Boo? ... Nuff said...

    Yeah but those kids are overweight because the mother is always feeding her kids spaghetti with butter and ketchup. Thats not really the healthiest.

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