1. In a nationally representative sample of 8,150 9-month old infants a study was done by Professor Juhee Kim of University of Illinois and Professor Kim Peterson of Harvard University’s School of Public Health. In their findings infants who received primary care from caregivers other than their parents had a higher weigh gain; indicating potential risk of overfeeding.
2. The CDC reports in a study by (Kramer MS) that breastfed infants were associated with a reduced risk of pediatric overweight, therefore non-breastfed infants are at risk of becoming obese.
3. An article by Medindia.com Networking for Health states scientists who had observed mother interact with their infant children said that overweight mothers tend to over feed their children. And infants of obese mothers eat more as the weights of their mothers increased.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Healthy Eating and Exercising
Some of the things that prevent me from healthy eating are I start my day by picking up my grandbabies; taking the 7 year-old to school and the 2 & 3 year olds to child care. Then the commute to the valley to get to work for the past 7 to 10 years is slow & that seems to drain my energy, so I stop and get a cup of coffee. Once I get to work I consume myself with the daily duties. And for the past 2 years the current co-workers have been constantly interrupting me to help them with their work. The accountant was in the past week to perform the outside audit and saw first-hand the constant interrupts I get while trying to process my work. He made a comment about, how can I get my work done and that I need an assistant. I replied I’ve been saying that for a while, so don’t waste your time. What I need is to retire after 23 years, or at least from this job.
I’ve found that being constantly interrupted from my work and making decisions for other people’s work, I usually don’t take a break and end up going out to lunch from between 1:30pm to 2:00pm. And because my company is located in no man’s land I usually go to the nearest fast food place and I know that’s bad; especially since I’ve allowed myself to get a little angry about the interruptions from people who can’t perform their job duties. So I end up getting the wrong types of fast food for lunch. After the long drive home from work, I usually flop on the couch and watch my grandbabies at play. I usually have a nutritious meal for dinner, because I live next door to one of my sister’s [who’s a granny to my grandbabies, just as she is a mom to my daughters], who does most of the cooking for all of us. But, when I’m really upset about the things at work, I resort to eating fattening comfort foods, especially desserts.
Exercise for me is seldom. I make a schedule to exercise and always something comes along and I allow it to take president over my exercise schedule. The last schedule I started was in February, for 2 days out of a week. After a week I had a hard time walking, I had to wear braces on both knees, but I keep going until mid April. The instructor’s pace was not for seniors. That exercise program was far above my abilities. The reason I chose an exercise program is because when I have to report to someone, I seem to do a better job of exercising. But, I know that I should not stop exercising; and I have lousy excuses, since my sister has about four different pieces of exercise equipment that I can use. I always seem to be too tired to use them; I start on one piece for about 3 to 5 minutes and say that’s enough for me.
I’ve found that being constantly interrupted from my work and making decisions for other people’s work, I usually don’t take a break and end up going out to lunch from between 1:30pm to 2:00pm. And because my company is located in no man’s land I usually go to the nearest fast food place and I know that’s bad; especially since I’ve allowed myself to get a little angry about the interruptions from people who can’t perform their job duties. So I end up getting the wrong types of fast food for lunch. After the long drive home from work, I usually flop on the couch and watch my grandbabies at play. I usually have a nutritious meal for dinner, because I live next door to one of my sister’s [who’s a granny to my grandbabies, just as she is a mom to my daughters], who does most of the cooking for all of us. But, when I’m really upset about the things at work, I resort to eating fattening comfort foods, especially desserts.
Exercise for me is seldom. I make a schedule to exercise and always something comes along and I allow it to take president over my exercise schedule. The last schedule I started was in February, for 2 days out of a week. After a week I had a hard time walking, I had to wear braces on both knees, but I keep going until mid April. The instructor’s pace was not for seniors. That exercise program was far above my abilities. The reason I chose an exercise program is because when I have to report to someone, I seem to do a better job of exercising. But, I know that I should not stop exercising; and I have lousy excuses, since my sister has about four different pieces of exercise equipment that I can use. I always seem to be too tired to use them; I start on one piece for about 3 to 5 minutes and say that’s enough for me.
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