Obesity has of late emerged a popular subject of studies.
However, most of these studies have found severe implications
for obese mothers and their kids. In one such study, it was
found that infants of obese mothers are slow developers.
According to a University of Iowa research study, babies of
obese mothers do not grow normally. Such babies, according to
the study gain less fat mass than those born to normal weight
mothers in consequence to which they grew less in length and
weight from birth until three months in comparison to babies
born to normal women. Fat mass is considered critical to brain
growth and development, according to the Iowa statement. “If
what we have found is true, it implies that the obesity epidemic
is harming children while they are still in utero (womb) and
increases the importance of addressing the risk of obesity
before females enter the child-bearing years, where the negative
effects can affect the next generation,” said Katie Larson Ode,
assistant clinical professor in pediatric e