{"id":25744,"date":"2016-04-27T11:26:31","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T10:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/?p=25744"},"modified":"2016-04-27T12:58:35","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T11:58:35","slug":"gaining-weight-before-pregnancy-could-increase-the-risk-of-having-overweight-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/gaining-weight-before-pregnancy-could-increase-the-risk-of-having-overweight-children\/","title":{"rendered":"GAINING WEIGHT BEFORE PREGNANCY COULD INCREASE THE RISK OF HAVING OVERWEIGHT CHILDREN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/pregnant-woman.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24760\" src=\"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/pregnant-woman.jpg\" alt=\"pregnant woman\" width=\"600\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/pregnant-woman.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/pregnant-woman-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The rate of obesity in children is really growing, and a recent research conducted by <i>Kaiser Permanente<\/i> found that Pre-pregnancy obesity and excessive weight gain during pregnancy was associated with an increased risk of the child becoming overweight at age two.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers studied 15,710 women who delivered babies at Kaiser Permanente medical facilities in Southern California in 2011, and they found the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A woman being obese (BMI of 30.0 or higher) prior to getting pregnant increased the odds of her child being overweight at age 2 by more than two-fold compared to women who had a normal pre-pregnancy weight (BMI between 18.5 and 25), after adjusting for weight gain during pregnancy, gestational diabetes and breastfeeding.<\/li>\n<li>A woman being overweight (BMI between 25.0 and 29.9) prior to pregnancy was associated with 50 percent increased odds of her child being overweight at age 2.<\/li>\n<li>Excessive weight gain during pregnancy was associated with 23 percent increased odds of a child being overweight at age 2 compared to women who had healthy weight gain during pregnancy after adjusting for pre-pregnancy weight, gestational diabetes and breastfeeding.<\/li>\n<li>Breastfeeding for at least six months was associated with a 24 percent reduction for the odds of a child being overweight at age 2 regardless of a mother&#8217;s pre-pregnancy weight, gestational diabetes or excessive weight gain during pregnancy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>According to the study&#8217;s lead author, Anny H. Xiang, PhD, of the Kaiser Permanente Southern California Department of Research &amp; Evaluation: &#8220;Childhood obesity is linked with adult obesity and long-term negative health outcomes, which is why it is important to explore which factors may contribute to excessive weight during early childhood,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our study findings highlight the need for more public health efforts to reduce maternal obesity, appropriate gestational weight gain and to promote breastfeeding.&#8221; He explained.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>S.O.Z\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rate of obesity in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[2584],"tags":[2713,2918],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25744"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25745,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25744\/revisions\/25745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}