Obesity 'raises miscarriage risk'

A terrible price to pay to keep the youngest from being nutritionally abused after they are born.

"Women who have had a miscarriage could be at greater risk of miscarrying again if they are obese, research suggests.

A team from London's St Mary's Hospital followed the progress of 696 women whose miscarriages were classed as "unexplained" by a specialist clinic.

The team told a conference in Canada the risk of a further miscarriage was raised by 73% if the woman was obese."

Children of fat parents become fat with near certainty.

This exposes them to many risks.

"However, an obesity specialist said it was potentially dangerous to try to lose weight when already pregnant.

Although the links between being obese and having problems conceiving and complications during pregnancy are well known, this study claims to be the first to look specifically at 'recurrent' miscarriage, for which there is often no obvious cause."

Rather than pay for weight loss surgeries and drugs, it is arguably a better idea to implant long-acting contraceptive meds in these women or reversibly surgerize them to prevent conception and embryonal/fetal/child abuse.

"Dr Nick Finer, an endocrinologist with an interest in obesity from Addenbrooke's Hospital near Cambridge, said that the findings were 'unsurprising'.

'We already know that the chances of fertility are less with increasing BMI, the risks of foetal malformation increase, alongside the risks of other adverse pregnancy outcomes.'"

Stop the nutritional child abuse.

And if you are intending to get pregnant or have children, check out "Fit To Parent (tm)," a program I started years ago and, to the best of my knowledge, was the first of its kind - a program to teach parents and parents-to-be how to get fit and raise fit kids.

Think about the children and do it for your kids.

At the very least, give them a chance.