Predictors of Obesity

Out for discussion is research on one of the biggest concerns among people everywhere- what are the critical times in a person's life that determine whether he or she will be obese throughout life. The annual European Conference on Obesity Research says there is evidence that people's weight at three periods of childhood may be critical in setting them up to be fat in adulthood. The three stages are:
1) being born either too big or too small
2) the early appearance of "puppy fat" and
3) tubbiness in teenage hood are the best indicators of obesity in adulthood.
Ergo, attempts should be made to identify each stage as it appears and to limit or reverse fat that appears in any of those stages. In particular, the scientists believe that what happens around birth is particularly important in determining life-long fatness. Studies show that babies who are born large are more likely to end up fat as adults.
However, bring born very small also seems to increase the risk of obesity in adulthood, especially if the infant is fed intensively to allow him or her to "catch up" to other baby weights. Babies that weigh less than 2.5 kilograms ( 5.5 pounds) are considered to be small. Babies in excess of 3.2 kilograms ( 7 pounds) are considered to be large.
Even though most babies in the developed world are not large, it is important to convince mothers that their smaller babies should not be fed to much to "catch up" to others. "They like to see them get high up in those growth curves. It's pretty ingrained in the maternal and child health nursing system to have a big baby, and it's probably not a smart idea," says Dr. Boyd Swinburn, an obesity expert from Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia.
Studies in the past indicate that about one in three children who are fat in early childhood end up fat as adults. Too, kids who get fat before the age of 8 tend to end more severely obese as adults than those who gain weight after age 8.
Having said all of that.... I am not going to tell you how much I weigh