Are fat moms to blame for fat kids? Answer unclear

Wrong. The answer is absolutely clear.

Just not the way they researched it.

"British researchers who tried to show why overweight mothers tend to have overweight children said on Monday they had filled in one small piece of the puzzle.

Their reassuring finding: women who are too fat when pregnant are probably not somehow driving the obesity epidemic by programming their children to be fat."

Note "when pregnant."

"What they did conclude was that obese mothers are unlikely to be driving a growing obesity epidemic by having babies who are metabolically programmed to get fat as they get older."

Fat moms have fat kids because they overfeed them as they grow.

It is not predetermination in utero.

It is poor parenting and nutritional child abuse ex utero.