Well the Men's Health Magazine did better than NurseWeek, In their November issue they included an article that listed Ten things that can help prevent childhood obesity.
Here is # 5Wi
5. THOU SHALT NOT CREATE UNNECESSARY FAT CELLS.
One doomsday scenario has it that our current nine million fat kids will find love, have nine million supersized weddings, and produce in excess of 18 million obese children, causing the collapse of beds, shoe arches, and civilization as we know it. It could happen, in fact, but it doesn't have to. "You can change the way inherited genes will act," says Dr. Levine. "The environment overrides the gene template." One way it does this is through fat-cell creation. Sometime early in a child's life--it could be the first few years, or even the first few months--your kid begins forming fat cells, with the total number being determined by the kinds of foods he's eating. If he's overstuffed as a baby, he'll have more fat cells. And that's like laying in a big supply of luggage before a long vacation: Your wife will fill every bag. So it is with those infinitely expandable fat cells. It's never too early to watch the ingredient lists. Another key to a healthy, lean baby: breast milk. And it
comes in such attractive packaging. (Studies show that babies fed with formula are more likely to become overweight as kids.)
See link below for the full article
http://www.menshealth.com/cda/article/0,6916,s1-4-0-0-809-3-6X12X17-4,00.html
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 01:18:35 -0800
From: sally myer
Subject: Article on Childhood Obesity
I ran across an article in NurseWeek about Childhood Obesity. In the =
discussion about risk factors--oops, they forgot to mention being =
formula-fed/not being breastfed. I contacted them about that. They =
ought to hear from more people.
http://www.nurseweek.com/ce/ce205a.asp
Sally Myer=20
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