Obesity 'link to same-sex parent'

[Charlotte]

BBC NEWS | Health | Obesity 'link to same-sex parent'

My Mum's always been a sturdy gurl, too.

Let the anecdotal evidence begin...

[Ian H]

My father used to be thin. My son is thin slim.

[Manotea]

It's temping to say 'no sh1t, sherlock' but Master Manotea has the physique of a racing whippet. So that's that theory debunked.

[Julian]

The article doesn't make sense.

They say that childhood obesity doesn't necessarily lead to adult obesity, and that they need to focus on adults rather than children, but then they do the comparisons not of adult children and their adult parents, but of children to parents.

It's blindingly obvious that in a household where the adults (who provide and prepare the food) are overweight, the children are more likely to be overweight.  What would be interesting is seeing how those behaviour patterns manifest when the children become adults.

[Greenbank]

When I was young I was a racing whippet, barely over 10st and fit as a fiddle.
Through beer, poor diet and lack of regular exercise I went up to 15st.
Through moderation, proper diet and regular exercise I'm down to 12st.

[hellymedic]

Anecdotes from a large family:
I have a fat Daddy (whose late mother was fat -wrong sex!- but lived to 101) None of my father's sisters were fat.
Mum is not quite overweight.

I have one brother who tends to overweight and two thin brothers.
I have one thin sister and one who fights the flab but is never really fat.
I have a BMI of 25.

Of my 21 nieces and nephews: (10M 11F)

Only one boy is fat; he has a plumpish father and two thin brothers.
One girl is plump and has a fat mother (as well as two thin brothers and two 'normal' sisters). Father is thin.
One baby girl is heavy and has thin/average parents.

I can't really see a pattern here except that large families beget large families...

[teethgrinder]

Anecdotes from a large family:
I have a fat Daddy (whose late mother was fat -wrong sex!- but lived to 101) None of my father's sisters were fat.
Mum is not quite overweight.

I have one brother who tends to overweight and two thin brothers.
I have one thin sister and one who fights the flab but is never really fat.
I have a BMI of 25.

Of my 21 nieces and nephews: (10M 11F)

Only one boy is fat; he has a plumpish father and two thin brothers.
One girl is plump and has a fat mother (as well as two thin brothers and two 'normal' sisters). Father is thin.
One baby girl is heavy and has thin/average parents.

I can't really see a pattern here except that large families beget large families...

Promisquity?

[Zoidburg]

I think it's a lottery.

Genetic traits also skip generations, I am informed I look like my grandfather, he was always slim.

[Valiant]

I'm the only fat one in my family and me dad used to be big but not anymore, my mum issa bit curvy but not fat. All me brothers and sisters are slim.

[oncemore]

Anecdotals go on forever....

I am near enough same size waist/chest at 60 as I was at 14. My father ditto between 14 and c.70 (and probably remained so until his death at c. 84 - never saw nor spoke to him for c. 15 years). On standard BMI thing I'm malnourished - he was a bit stockier.
Despite the fact that he could and did drink even MORE than me for even longer, certainly at 60 we both had/have 30" waist.
And that proves?

[hellymedic]

Anecdotes from a large family:
I have a fat Daddy (whose late mother was fat -wrong sex!- but lived to 101) None of my father's sisters were fat.
Mum is not quite overweight.

I have one brother who tends to overweight and two thin brothers.
I have one thin sister and one who fights the flab but is never really fat.
I have a BMI of 25.

Of my 21 nieces and nephews: (10M 11F)

Only one boy is fat; he has a plumpish father and two thin brothers.
One girl is plump and has a fat mother (as well as two thin brothers and two 'normal' sisters). Father is thin.
One baby girl is heavy and has thin/average parents.

I can't really see a pattern here except that large families beget large families...

Promisquity?

Hardly; my brothers and sisters are monogamous and have amassed 85 years of married life between them...

[Fab Foodie]

I'm the reincarnation of my father body-shape wise.  He was a Builder/P&D so always active, but a tad porky round the middle... as am I 

[LEE]

Have scientists finally come to the conclusion that girls "turn into their mothers eventually"?

It's something that boys have been told since time began (usually by their down-trodden, miserable father who wished he'd remembered what his father had told him all those years ago)

Fortunately my wife did no such thing and turned into more of an angel than when I first met her (and also learned my YACF password)

[hellymedic]

'Mirror, mirror on the wall,
I am my mother, after all.'

[ludwig]

As I understand it tattoos and criminality also tend to be passed from parent to child but I'm not sure that that says anything about genetics. Fat people are fat because they take in more calories than they use. If a few more people just accepted that there might be a few less of them around.