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Thursday, August 10, 2006

All right, it's really time to just stop worrying about this


posted by bitchphd
Dear god, my fellow Americans. We have a new epidemic: overweight infants!

Yes, you heard me right. Those healthy fat babies who aren't yet eating solid foods? They're not cute! They're obese! Get those babies on diets! Oh no, wait, don't do that. "It is much better to be guided by the appetite of the baby." No, don't! "It could be that if you're overfed early in life, that may affect the brain's neurochemistry during a key development period and reprogram a person to eat to excess."

Worry, worry, worry! And don't forget that it's really all the fault of pre-pregnant women. That's right: not only are fat chicks ugly and weak-willed and unfeminine--they're also endangering babies!

Or, you know, maybe we could just recognize that well-off countries are likely to produce healthy babies, that fat babies have traditionally been admired as cute and healthy, that once they start crawling and walking they'll be getting exercise, that exercise in the form of walking is good for everyone plus it saves oil, and that really, the most likely route to healthy eating habits is not to fucking become obsessed with food and fat.

Nah.

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