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Generational Obesity Epidemic
Science Daily released an article this week, expressing concern that overweight women give birth to children who in turn become even heavier, thus creating a generational obesity epidemic. The article states:
“‘There is an obesity epidemic in the United States and it’s increasingly recognized as a worldwide phenomenon,” said Dr. Robert A. Waterland, assistant professor of pediatrics — nutrition at BCM and lead author of the study that appears in the International Journal of Obesity.”
It is a pretty scary thought to think that women, mothers in particular, are contributing to this epidemic of obesity linked from one generation …read more