News and Opinion
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Big mothers, fatter daughters
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- Published on Monday, 09 January 2012
If you want to know what your girlfriend's going to look like in middle age, look at her mother. Researchers at the Glasgow University confirm that bigger families are having bigger children and that daughters seem to inherit more from their mother. The Glasgow study found that, of its female cohort, 17% were obese mothers but 20% of daughters were obese, a far higher proportion than among fathers and sons or mothers and sons.
The Scotsman's Sunday edition headlined its coverage " Children who shall inherit the girth " - a laudable title for a newspaper produced on the sabbath. Its take home message is, again, commendable. The message? All children with overweight/obese parents and at risk of becoming so themselves, should be monitored for unhealthy weight gain from birth.