Infants

The world is going to hell in a hand basket. Actually, make that a baby basket.  Right now there is a new “tool” for expectant parents on a prominent parenting website that couldn’t be more damaging or ridiculous if it tried.

Waaah, I hate weigh-in day. Photo: AP

The tool basically determines whether or not your infant child is at risk of obesity. It works by typing in both parents’ Body Mass Index, whether they smoke or not and their socio-economic status.

And it’s touted as a helpful, informative and even insightful and trustworthy source of information for expectant parents. What a load of codswallop.

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  • Courtney says:

    04:08pm | 06/12/12

    The stats in this para are useless as presented. “Among US adults 20 years and older, 23.5% (approximately 16.3 million adults) of normal-weight adults were metabolically abnormal, whereas 51.3 per cent (approximately 35.9 million adults) of overweight adults and 31.7 per cent (approximately 19.5 million adults) of obese adults were… Read more »

  • Sickemrex says:

    02:52pm | 05/12/12

    Ok that makes no sense! I’m still running regularly at 26 weeks pregnant, derrr. Read more »

 

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