After investigating more than 4,000 families, the researchers found that the mother's weight has greater influence on her children than her father's. If the mother is obese, the probability of her daughter being obese will increase by 10 times. In addition to genetic factors, the mother's diet and weight during pregnancy will also affect her children.
At the same time, domestic experts have also given a similar view-compared with the obesity of boys, the obesity of girls has a greater relationship with their mothers.
Therefore, some people spit: boys marry their daughters-in-law, and they can regard their mother-in-law's figure as a standard; And when the girls are trying to lose weight, they finally have an excuse to blame their mother for a word or two. ...
In the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, there is a weight loss and weight gain clinic. In the experience of attending physician Zhao, he has seen many similar cases. "When patients and their families enter the door, they are a family at first glance." Why do you say that? A fat daughter who wants to lose weight will always follow an equally fat mother with a particularly similar figure.
Among Zhao's patients, there is a girl in her early twenties who is less than 1.6 meters tall and weighs more than 70 kilograms. She was accompanied by a mother about her age.
Zhao gave the girl a prescription for diet and exercise. After explaining it clearly, she turned to her mother: precautions for losing weight, how much food to eat every day, and what exercise to add. These contents were also repeated-for the fat girl's mother, losing weight is equally effective for her.
Why is the relationship between daughter and mother so close? Why is the son's physical problems less related to his mother?
In Zhao's view, in addition to genetic factors, obesity and figure also have a lot to do with usual living habits. In terms of living habits, mothers in most families dominate, while daughters are more likely to listen to their elders than sons, and living habits are more likely to be "inherited" to their daughters.
Obesity is also a disease. Besides a balanced diet, exercise is also essential. Nowadays, people work at their desks and lack exercise. Zhao exercises three or four times a week. "Only by eating a balanced diet can you keep in good shape."
Shandong University analyzed the obesity status and influencing factors of preschool children in Bengbu, and concluded that the main influencing factors of preschool children's obesity are mother's body mass index (BMI) ≥24, single-parent family, mother's weight gain ≥ 15kg during pregnancy, good appetite, fast eating, parents' bad cognition of children's body shape and the consequences of obesity.
It can be seen from these studies that the weight of a mother during pregnancy is an important factor affecting whether her child is obese or not. This is because fat cells will increase in three stages, namely, fetal period, early childhood and early adolescence.
The number of fat cells in normal people is about 25 billion to 28 billion, while the number of fat cells in obese children can reach 63.5 billion to 90.5 billion, which is three times that of normal people.
Fat body is caused by too many fat cells or too many fat cells, so getting fat in adulthood is largely because you are a little fat since childhood.
Most parents in China think that the word "white fat" is a compliment to their children, but the fatter the child, the cuter it is. From the doctor's point of view, it is equivalent to "this child will become a big fat man in the future."
For pregnant mothers who didn't control their weight well during pregnancy, the children in their bellies can be said to have really lost at the starting line. When these pregnant mothers' living habits are unhealthy, obedient daughters can easily "inherit" these easy-to-get-fat lifestyles, and they are born with more fat cells than others, making them more likely to become "hard-working" fat girls.