Monday, 17 November 2008
FAT BABIES (Click Here)
Obesity risk for babies who sleep less,” is the headline in The Daily Telegraph today. The article says that “babies and toddlers who sleep for less than 12 hours a day are twice as likely to be overweight by the time they are three years old”. The research also shows that if this lack of sleep is combined with more than two hours of TV a day then that “increases the risk even further,”
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56% of working mums think nurseries let there children sleep to long. Is this how it all starts
Too much sleep is probably a result of stressed mothers wanting a little more time to themselves! Kids have to have engaged mothers who want to socialise and bring up their children in the best way possible. Obesity in children, generally, is due to bad parenting (there are medical reasons for some cases). In pregnancy, a mother "puts down" the amount of fat cells the child inherits through their own nutrition. Then, processed foods and pandering to demands of children leads to obesity. Add to this not supporting daily activity and you have a generation of obese children!
anonymous got it wrong with too long sleeping! Is the lack of sleep to do with the number of E numbers in processed foods given to kids????
I watched a father spending at least £12 on baby food jars in Asda the other day - how much cheaper to boil/mash up fruits and veg? Is this an excuse or a product of mothers working too quickly after the birth of their child?
are parents today not concerned that obese children are bullied in school??? They should be concerned about NOT allowing their kids to become obese because it blights their lives!
Surely the more sleep chldren get the more likely they are develop less active lifestyle early on and given that the mother has put down the nos of fat cells the child inherits - inactivity will add to them increasing in size early on
Missing the target - interesting
Interesting link to article re diet drug tested in Denmark
A survey carried out with pre school children in Glasgow found that implementing more physical activity into the children's weekly programme did not have a significant effect on BMI but did make the children's motor skills better and therefor more able to do physical activity which would benefit them when they got older
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