Last Sunday, The Globe and Mail ran a story, “The maternal obesity hypothesis: How a mother’s health, before and during pregnancy, can affect her child’s weight,” that included comments from HALO’s own Dr. Kristi Adamo.
From the story:
In a controversial paper titled “The Childhood Obesity Epidemic as a Result of Nongenetic Evolution: The Maternal Resources Hypothesis” published in November in Mayo Clinic Proceedings, a peer-reviewed clinical journal, Dr. Edward Archer, of the Nutrition Obesity Research Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, suggests childhood obesity begins with mothers, well before conception. The university publicized the paper with a sensationalized sell line: “Novel theory connects mothers to childhood obesity: Evolution is the cause, and moms are the cure.”
[…]…while Dr. Kristi Adamo, a research scientist immersed in epigenetics at the Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute in Ottawa, agrees with much of Archer’s paper, she says the idea of putting the spotlight on teen girls is “absolutely not realistic.”
“When you first get your period, that is not what you’re thinking about. I’m pretty sure most girls in their teenage years are thinking about not getting pregnant,” she says.
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