Babies of heavy mothers have more fat, less muscle

Fetal abuse and bullsh*t alert.

The abuse alert...

"Babies born to overweight or obese women have more fat and less muscle than infants born to normal-weight moms, according to one of the first studies to compare newborns' body composition to their mothers' pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI)...

...infants of the 39 overweight or obese moms had significantly higher percentages of body fat (13.6 vs. 12.5 percent), higher fat mass (448.3 grams vs. 414.1 grams), and lower fat-free mass (3,162.2 grams vs. 3,310.5 grams) than the babies born to the 33 normal-weight women, Fields and his team found."

So what?

The bullsh*t alert...

"Babies born to heavy mothers may face a greater risk of diabetes because they have less muscle mass, Fields noted in an interview. 'That could be reason why these kids, probably many of them, will get diabetes, because muscle is your largest consumer of sugar,' he said."

Clearly there is no pre-determination as kids of intended-weight are not condemned to diabetes, no matter their birth weight or body composition.

If a kid is fat, put him/her on a diet.