Susan writes:

You can  point to small populations where obesity was prized (like in 
Northern Niger  where high class women were literally stuffed with cream and fat 
like ducks to  make them beautifully enormous) but these were small pockets. 
 And while  it is more pervasive in developed countries, it is increasing 
in developing  countries.
~~~ It is such  a well-defined threat and growing that we have had a  term 
for it for quite a few years: "The Double Burden of Malnutrition." There  
was a very fat booklet on these back in the late 90s/ early 2000s when I  used 
to represent Maternal and Child Health issues for LLLI, at the United  
Nations. 
If anyone is interested in this: 
_ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/009/a0442e/a0442e00.pdf_ (ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/009/a0442e/a0442e00.pdf) 
The increasing and epidemic state of obesity and morbid obesity is sure to  
have a continued impact on working with mothers and babies.
 
Peace,
Judy  

Judy LeVan  Fram, PT, IBCLC, LLLL
Brooklyn, NY,  USA
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