Extra pregnancy weight doesn't mean heavy kid

This is likely true:

"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 heavy when pregnant are probably not somehow driving the obesity epidemic by programming their children to be fat...

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."

This is clearly crap:

"But there is a strong link between overweight mothers and overweight children that still needs to be explained, Debbie Lawlor of Britain's University of Bristol and colleagues said."

The link is called eating too much.

Idiot.

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