Prevention of child obesity begins well before birth
Kathy Hubbard Columnist | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 11 years, 2 months AGO
We called her “Two-Ton Sharon.” Not to her face, but honestly, she was the fattest baby I’d ever seen. She was cute, but she was huge. When she was 9 months old, I could hardly lift her which is often a predictor, according to a Wayne State University study, of later in childhood obesity.
Her parents were normal sized as was her sister. Sharon was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes when she was 12, developed severe, debilitating back and knee problems before her twentieth birthday and died of a heart attack a few days shy of her thirtieth. She was never able to get her weight under control.
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