New Kinesiology Research Shows Early Diet May Have A Profound Influence On Adult Obesity, Diabetes

How is this possible?

"If you have trouble keeping weight off and you're wondering why - the surprising answer may well be the cheeseburgers you ate - when you were a toddler.

Surprising new research by University of Calgary, Faculty of Kinesiology researcher Dr. Raylene Reimer, published in an international journal, indicates a direct connection between an adult's propensity to put on weight and our early childhood diet."

I mean what can it possibly be about habits learned as a child that could affect adult behavior?

We all know how, once the influences of childhood are past, we review how we wipe our butts, blow our noses, clean dishes, etc.

Of course, there are those who want to blame other factors.

"'My research has shown that the food we eat changes how active certain genes in our body are - what we call genetic expression. In particular we believe that our diet has a direct influence on the genes that control how our bodies store and use nutrients,' says Reimer. 'There's a growing body of work that indicates a relationship between our health as adults and our early diet, and even our mother's diet. This research shows for the first time that our early childhood diet may have a huge impact on our health as adults.'

Reimer's study published in the current Journal of Physiology (London,) compares three groups of rats. At a very young age the rats were weaned onto three separate diets. One group was fed a high protein diet; one group was fed a high fibre diet and a third group was fed a control diet. When the rats became adults, they were switched to a high fat, high sugar diet, which reflects the reality of the typical western diet."

Well, fatso, add the rat defense to the Twinkie defense.

Clearly, it is impossible to overcome the impulse to overeat once you have been "genetically altered" ex utero.

If you are a rat.

Strive to be more than a rodent.

Or a pig.