Comments on: Is Baby Fat a Warning Sign? New Research Links Infants' Weight Gain to Obesity

By: Dr. Charles Martin

Dr. Charles Martin — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:45:21 +0000

Interesting article. Let’s hope more research is done to help determine whether interventions can be implemented as early as possible to help prevent obesity, a major risk factor for type 2 diabetes. Elevated blood sugar is now epidemic in the U.S. and its complications cause untold suffering and billions in healthcare costs. Unfortunately, one of the complications is gum disease, which then interacts with high blood sugar symptoms and interferes with diabetes control. We write extensively about related issues at http://dentistryfordiabetics.com/blog.

- Charles Martin, DDS
Founder, Dentistry For Diabetics

By: Todd

Todd — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:09:05 +0000

Over the past year, I’ve gone from 275 to 225 lbs. I’ve done this by eating smaller portions at more frequent intervals. The general rule is;

weight (lbs) X 15 = calories needed/day to maintain your current weight
Less than that then you lose.
More than that then you gain.

I realized I was eating upwards of 4000/day, so I dropped to 1200/day by eating 200 every three hours. This meant six times a day, I would eat. My stomach now holds less food because it shrunk and I can’t believe I went through the first 38 years of my life eating the way I was taught (three meals/day). It’s wrong and it just keeps us fat.

The only thing that early weight gain is a warning sign of is parents that don’t know how to feed their children. The “fat-and-can’t-help-it” gene, in my layman opinion, is very rare.

By: Ammy

Ammy — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:57:51 +0000

I have to wonder how much our weight has to do with our natural predisposition rather than behavior. If those that will be overweight in life are already overweight by 6 months old, before there’s even food type choice, this seems to speak to it being a part of our basic makeup rather than bad choices on our own part. I suspect our obesity comes largely from our genetics. One look at the Samoan population lets you know which genetic makeup survived the deprivation after hurricanes destroy all of the breadfruit for a season. It’s likely true for the rest of us to a lesser degree, with those whose genetics selected for things other than extreme deprivation situations. There are those who are beanpoles from the get go, and those who are fighting fat from their youth. With so much abundance in the past 50 years in the U.S., it’s not particularly surprising that our basic dispositions towards packing it on are being expressed more than before the days of refrigeration.

By: John Cassady

John Cassady — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:38:54 +0000

Al, maybe I’m just being dense but I have no idea what you are trying to say.

By: Uncle Al

Uncle Al — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:05:34 +0000

What is the proper weight and lifespan of a human being? Visit a nursng home to see what your hundreds of $billions/year majorly purchase: persistence and warehousing of the elderly living dead. Eat what you want, live to be 80, punch out before your brain rots. If that sends Big Pharma into the same hole as Wall Steet and Detroit, they can take SSRI happy pills augmented by Abilify (aripiprazole).

Dead of one thing or dead of ten things, you are still dead. It makes no sense to encumber 60 happy years of your adult life to add on 20 miserable years.