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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