Just to let y’all know, to me: WTC means “What the Craziness??!!” (* I try not to swear, I really, really do!)

Check out this article by the New York times -

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Baby’s First Diet Pill

Why do people get fat? We habitually divide the causes of obesity into two categories: genetic predisposition (having lots of overweight relatives) and lifestyle choices (eating too many chips or even, according to a recent study, having fat friends). A new field called developmental programming maintains a third possibility: that obesity, like many aspects of our physiology, can be traced to the months just before and after birth, when the brain and other organs are still fine-tuning themselves.

This early adjusting appears to be extensive. The “thermal environment” a young child encounters — how hot it is at home — may determine the number of active sweat glands he’ll have for the rest of his life. The flow of stress hormones from a pregnant woman to her fetus can “program” the developing brain, making it more reactive to stress in infancy (and perhaps even adulthood). Appetite and metabolism are also influenced during this period, the theory goes, and once set are exceedingly difficult to change. The evolutionary advantage of such a mechanism is clear: If a fetus or newborn senses he is entering a world of scarcity, for example, he’d better prepare himself to hang on to every calorie.

Read the rest of the article here

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I don’t know – I really, really, really, really don’t know anymore. I have a love/hate relationship with medicine and the whole science world. Sometimes we try to alter things by creating short term, ‘easy’ solutions…but there are no short cuts in life. There will always be a consequence.

We need to look within the human psyche and transmit it into a physical, positive action in order to truly change the landscape of our obese nation.

You wanna help your baby?? EAT BETTER. and treat your temple with respect!

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