growing organic food isnt expensive though, its really cheap and teaches
kids so much about eating food that is fresh straight from the earth -
not a can or microwave haha. you can grow enough vegetables for a family by
rotating and replanting as you need. i havent tried this technique but it
sounds great (www.squarefootgardening.com)
sorry this isnt directly relevant, but if it helps grow healthy families
and children and save money and the earths resources then i guess it
is !
love emily
Janet Fraser
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I also find it deeply
unsatisfactory because we know that breastfeeding is the way to avoi! d
obesity and yet we don't promote bf as part of the package. There's no
mention in this of whether or not the mothers or children were bf to WHO
guidelines.
I would really hate
us to go back to those days of obsessive weighing of women & them
dreading the weekly pregnancy check because they'd be 'told off' for
gaining weight. Some women even used it as an excuse not to attend
pregnancy checks at all, especially the bigger women who we know are high
risk.
Those were awful
times where women were treated like naughty girls instead of responsible
women who ought to be deciding (with the appropriate info) what's
best for the health of themselves & their baby.
There is always a
'policeman' with the weighing system, usually it's the ! weigher (ie
the midwife) & no one likes them, it's very bad for
mother/midwife rapport.
Educating the
mothers re healthy diets is the key as that's why they gained the
excess weight initially during pregnancy, (unhealthy eating
patterns) unless they were underweight when they became pregnant (
very common with the 'lolly-pop' look nowadays). So they need education
about healthy food choices after weaning from the breast for their
children.
Just my 2c worth, I
hated with a passion hearing women worrying about:
'putting on too much weight, the doctor will tell me
off'.
It's soooo demeaning !
They aren't naughty school girls & it reinforces that
patriarchal "doctor is God' handing down sentences &
orders triad.
PREGNANT women who
gain too much weight under the guise of "eating for two" may be
guaranteeing their children have a lifelong battle with
obesity.
Two studies that will be published in next week's
New Scientist journal found women who gain too much weight during
pregnancy are far more likely to have overweight or obese
children.
One study, from a team at Harvard University in the US, found
that even women who followed their doctor's advice and gained a
"safe" amount of weight were still likely to have overweight
children.
The Harvard study divided 770 expectant mothers into three
groups - those who gained an "inadequate", "adequate" and
"excessive" amount of weight - based on the US Institute of
Medicine's guidelines that women should gain between 12kg and
16kg.
Children born to women who gained an adequate or ex! cessive
amount of weight were, on average, already overweight by the age
of three.
"Only the inadequate group - a weight gain of less than
11.5kg - gives a result that is where you want to be," Harvard
University researcher Matthew Gillman said.
Researchers believe that during gestation the baby's
metabolism - including the hunger and satiety signals that tell
people when to stop eating - is still developing and babies become
accustomed to having too much food.
Julie Owens, a researcher at the University of Adelaide's
centre for reproductive health, said that while there was no exact
guide to how much weight a women should gain, it was important
women did not use pregnancy as an excuse to
overeat.
