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Anti-Obesity Baby Formula
Topic Started: Apr 23 2007, 12:12 PM (125 Views)
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Formula milk designed to give babies life-long protection against obesity is being developed by scientists.

The product would be supplemented with leptin, a hormone which has been shown to control hunger.

A commercial launch would be highly controversial because it might encourage mothers to switch from breast feeding, which repeated studies have shown to be best for babies. Critics said using a hormone to programme children's brains was "scary" and they accused the scientists behind the idea of trying to cash in on fears about obesity.

But scientists at Buckingham University said their studies of leptin showed it could help confront the nation's weight crisis and prevent life illnesses such as heart disease and diabetes.

Produced in the body by fat cells, and a natural component of breast milk, leptin turns off hunger in the brain.

Attempts to use it to control eating in adults have failed so far, with patients quickly resisting its appetite- quenching affect. But, given early in life, when the brain is still developing, it could prove much more effective, the scientists said.

When the hormone was fed to pregnant rats, their pups remained lean for life - even when fed a fatladen diet.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/arti...ALTH&ICL=TOPART

What do you think? Personally, I think it's pretty frightening that instead of bringing up a child to eat healthily and exercise more, they could end up being fed hormones so that nobody has to bother with basic healthy living.

Don't worry if Little Johnny is obsessed with his XBOX and never plays outside - we fed him hormones as a baby so he'll never get fat! :vomit:
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What are those long curly chicken-like products they serve in schools in the UK?

Anyhow... they should just put the hormones in those horrid things.
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Long curly chicken like products? Absolutely no idea what you're talking about - but sounds gross.
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oops... I think it was a turkey-like product.... let me look it up.
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Turkey Twizzlers
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Scotland, however, banned Twizzlers years ago.


If Scotland banned it, it must either be wonderful food, or a culinary abortion bordering on crime against humanity.
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Yep - few things worse than mechanically reclaimed meat. I would rather give my child a pint of Guinness than give them one turkey twizzler.
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Up until a few years ago, these were a regular (and some sister products) on the school lunch menu.

Lazy parents, lazy schools.... it's the reason for obesity in children... doctoring formula will only premote this lazy thinking.
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Apr 23 2007, 12:12 PM
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Formula milk designed to give babies life-long protection against obesity is being developed by scientists.

The product would be supplemented with leptin, a hormone which has been shown to control hunger.

A commercial launch would be highly controversial because it might encourage mothers to switch from breast feeding, which repeated studies have shown to be best for babies. Critics said using a hormone to programme children's brains was "scary" and they accused the scientists behind the idea of trying to cash in on fears about obesity.

But scientists at Buckingham University said their studies of leptin showed it could help confront the nation's weight crisis and prevent life illnesses such as heart disease and diabetes.

Produced in the body by fat cells, and a natural component of breast milk, leptin turns off hunger in the brain.

Attempts to use it to control eating in adults have failed so far, with patients quickly resisting its appetite- quenching affect. But, given early in life, when the brain is still developing, it could prove much more effective, the scientists said.

When the hormone was fed to pregnant rats, their pups remained lean for life - even when fed a fatladen diet.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/arti...ALTH&ICL=TOPART

What do you think? Personally, I think it's pretty frightening that instead of bringing up a child to eat healthily and exercise more, they could end up being fed hormones so that nobody has to bother with basic healthy living.

Don't worry if Little Johnny is obsessed with his XBOX and never plays outside - we fed him hormones as a baby so he'll never get fat! :vomit:

If only it did work on adults, eh? :P
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This is disturbing.

I'm not a proponent of formula to begin with, but trying to tempt people into thinking that their babies will be obese if they don't give them this formula is disgusting.

While that might not be the intent of their advertising, that is certainly how some people are going to look at it. Look at vitamin D - doctors issued a statement saying breastfed babies needed to be supplemented with vitamin D, and my sister actually used that as a reason to formula feed, citing breastmilk was low in vitamin D.

Teaching your child healthy eating habits isn't difficult. When my son wants a snack, he asks for an apple, or baby carrots, or cheese, or dried mango strips, etc. because that is what he's always had as snacks.

It isn't rocket science.
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Just think of all the lazy shitty parents who think that because the kid isn't actually going to get fat, they can feed them cheap junk food. Because fat = unhealthy, right? Nutrition no longer matters.
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As Corel said....


Once you have succeeded at raising a child who actually makes good choices by spending a few of the formitive years making it a priority, you begin to understand just what lazy failures "some other" parents actually are.



Sad it has to be at the expense of the child's health.
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Indeed, baby and toddler brains are maleable little pieces of goo. You can tell them anything is good, and they'll buy it.

I love mandarin oranges, because those are seen as a treat. Just like raw veggies with dip - that's a big "treat" in our house. Raisins are also a treat. Avocado - BIG TREAT because he associates it with sushi.

I had to stop watching that UK show that took kids living in unhealthy situations and showed their parents what they would look like when they were 40...it was too disgusting. I was glad that these parents were trying to change, but just watching how pathetic they were at first..."Oh, we just can't stop him from eating unhealthily..." when in reality, it was the parents who didn't want to change THEIR eating habits.

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That's the best cuddly toy I've seen since plush viruses. :D
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