Sentences with phrase «for obese mothers»

«Dieting for obese mothers just before pregnancy may not be enough.»

Breastfeeding is important to the health and wellbeing of all babies and parents but can be particularly important for obese mothers.

Not exact matches

and for the record my mother and many others I know started me and all my siblings earlier than 6 months and we are not obese and are healthy thriving people.

Maybe a distinction should be made for morbidly obese mothers, or mothers with large fat pockets.

Eating More Than Required: Since a lot of would - be mothers and their families believe that eating during pregnancy means food intake for two instead of one, they end up feasting a lot more than required and put on weight, which can make them obese even years later.

Although being born to an obese mother though C - section is a factor for determining what causes obesity in offspring, it is not the sole defining factor.

It was actually far more important for fostering healthy gut microbiomes than whether or not the mother was obese.

In fact, according to a study in Breastfeeding Medicine, mothers with lower rates of breastfeeding «tend to be young, low - income, African American, unmarried, less educated, participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), overweight or obese before pregnancy, and more likely to report their pregnancy was unintended.»

Obese mothers as well as mothers who had emergency cesarean section deliveries reported the least odds of exclusive breastfeeding for 3 or 6 months [33, 34].

The study, published online last week in the Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, is the first to demonstrate that PQQ can protect offspring of obese mothers from acceleration of obesity - induced liver disease.

The implications of obesity have also been a topic of interest, including studies of a potential link to autism for children born to diabetic and obese mothers and other research that indicates obesity as a possible risk factor for cognitive decline.

«If human offspring from obese mothers have a similar risk for developing fibrosis as we see in mice, we may be able to predict who is going to develop more serious disease,» said Thompson.

Before pregnancy for this population of African - American and Dominican women, 45 percent were overweight or obese, and 64 percent of mothers gained more weight during pregnancy than recommended by the 2009 Institute of Medicine Guidelines.

For example, studies have linked pregnant mothers that were undernourished during the second world war with gene changes in their children that put them at higher risk of becoming obese or getting cancer.

Another possibility, raised in the comments by Amber, is that mothers of the obese children were obese themselves, ate low - carb diets for weight control reasons, and passed on their obesity to their children.

Women of all races and ethnicities are at risk for PCOS, but your risk for PCOS may be higher if you are obese or if you have a mother, sister, or aunt with PCOS.

We found associations between maternal obesity and having any chronic condition and all subcategories of conditions; this association was strongest for child obesity (42.1 %; 95 % CI, 38.2 % -46.1 %, vs 23.3 %; 95 % CI, 21.6 % -25.1 %, of children with mothers who were not obese)(AOR, 2.07; 95 % CI, 1.70 - 2.51).

As demonstrated in Table 2, children whose mothers reported chronic IPV were 80 % more likely to be obese at age 5 years than those with no maternal IPV in the model 1 analysis adjusted for all covariates (OR = 1.80; 95 % confidence interval [CI], 1.24 - 2.61).

Regarding the child, the importance of the intrauterine and early postnatal environments for metabolic programming and modifications of the epigenome is increasingly recognised, 12 — 14 particularly for metabolic diseases such as obesity and diabetes.15 Thus, GDM is related to macrosomia at birth (> 4 kg), to excess body fat and (central) obesity and to insulin secretion in infants and children, the obesity being in part mediated by maternal body mass index (BMI) or birth weight.16 — 23 Intrauterine exposure to GDM also doubles the risk for subsequent type 2 diabetes in offspring compared with offspring of mothers with a high genetic predisposition for type 2 diabetes, but with normal glucose tolerance during the index pregnancy.24 Maternal prepregnancy overweight and excessive gestational weight gain also predict high birth weight and adiposity during infancy.12 25 This is highly relevant, as up to 60 % — 70 % of women with GDM are overweight or obese before pregnancy.26 Finally, maternal lifestyle behaviour such as a high fat diet or lack of physical activity during pregnancy can influence offspring adiposity independent of maternal obesity.12 27

Of the 137 (88 %) mothers who provided height and weight information, 51 % could be categorised as overweight or obese (BMI > 25), which is consistent with other Australian data for this age group [33].

After adjusting for maternal level of education, children whose mothers were depressed watched 23 more minutes of TV per day than children whose mothers were not depressed (95 % confidence interval, 4 - 42 minutes), and children whose mothers were obese watched 26 more minutes of TV than those whose mothers were not obese (95 % confidence interval, 8 - 45 minutes).

Studies suggest that breastfed children are significantly less likely than are their bottle - fed peers to be obese; develop asthma; have autoimmune diseases, such as Type 1 diabetes; and be diagnosed with childhood cancers.7 Moreover, infant feeding practices appear to be associated with cognitive ability during childhood: Full - term infants who are breastfed, as opposed to bottle - fed, score three to six points higher on IQ tests.8 Family support providers can influence the initiation and continuation of breastfeeding by promoting, teaching, and supporting nursing; states can maximize potential benefits by tracking how many mothers start and continue breastfeeding for at least three months.

Among females, high - quality mother and father relationship were both associated with lower odds of being overweight / obese and disordered eating, eating fast food, and insufficient sleep and the magnitude of associations were similar for mother and father relationship quality (AOR range 0.61 — 0.84).