Obesity May Begin Before Birth, Researchers Suggest

Some researchers are proposing a provocative new medical theory about obesity, which suggests that obesity begins much earlier than previously believed — possibly long before they’re born, Newsday reports.

In particular, as doctors have known for years, babies born to mothers with diabetes have an increased risk of being larger and fatter at birth and that risk doesn’t lessen with age. Even though they often lose weight as toddlers, they’re likely to gain weight during childhood and adolescence.

Now new research is looking at other perinatal factors that may increase the chances of obesity.

But these new ideas run counter to conventional thinking, which almost exclusively attributes excess weight to our dietary and lifestyle choices.

"The overwhelming factors that contribute to childhood obesity are the fact that kids are much more sedentary than they used to be, and they’re eating so much more of the wrong kinds of foods," Marion Nestle, the Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University, told Newsday. "You really don’t need to get into anything more complicated than that."

Whether or not these pre-natal theories are legitimate, the fact remains that a couch-potato existence and eating too many sweets and fast-acting carbs can add excess flab. And, as considerable research shows, by contrast, eliminating inferior carbs can peel off the pounds.

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