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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Part of the answer of why children and teens are heavier may lie in how we are feeding our infants. Here are a few links to articles discussing the findings that babies who are exclusively breastfed and are not exposed to solid foods until after six months tend to have lower BMIs when they are older than those who were formula fed and/or given solid foods at earlier ages. Also, the longer time a child is exclusively breastfed, the lower the chance that the child will be overweight or obese.

http://www.foodandnutritionresearch.net/index.php/fnr/article/download/1550/1418

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16902325

http://advances.nutrition.org/content/3/5/675.full

http://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/6/4/1608/pdf
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But formula was widely used back to the 50s, and there were far fewer overweight children in previous decades than now.[/quote]

I think it's a combination of hormones in our food and larger portions.

I recently hosted co-workers from Europe who had never been stateside and they were astonished by our portions.  They said they'd heard about "American sized meals" but never imagined them to be so large.  Another co-worker took them to Cracker Barrel while out site-seeing and blew their minds.  The one lady ordered meatloaf and didn't understand how sides worked.  So she added one thing when the waitress prompted.  Then another when prompted again.  Then shook her head and picked another when prompted once more.  She finally threw her hands up when asked if she wanted cornbread or biscuits and said, "NO BREAD!"

When I took DD & DS to Italy on a work related trip, DS was constantly starving because he was used to larger portions.  He was 13 at the time and as most know, 13 year old boys are notorious bottomless pits, but not many meals went by where he didn't say, "is this it?" or "can I order two?"  The first day he ordered spaghetti and meatballs.  A small pile with two small meatballs arrived and he groaned, "oh man, is this one of those fancy tiny portion places that you and dad go to on date night?"  No, son, that's called a normal helping of pasta.  I'm sorry they didn't have a sink-sized bowl like Olive Garden for your dining needs.   :lol:  :lol:  :lol:    [/quote]

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