Is it better for babies to be fat or thin?

When a mother gives birth to a big fat son, the whole family is immersed in joy. The chubby baby is very cute, which makes people happier than a thin baby. However, being fat is not a good thing. So no matter whether the baby is fat or thin, the best thing is physical health. Some babies are not born very fat but very healthy, while some babies become oversized at birth and will have certain health problems in the future.

Everyone likes to raise a big fat grandson, who is plump, white, full of collagen, and looks angry (fortunately no one likes a big fat granddaughter), but a chubby child is actually not the right way to raise a child.

We all know that for adults, regardless of their internal image, obesity will greatly increase the risk of hyperlipidemia, coronary heart disease, liver fat, stroke, other heart diseases and other diseases, and obesity in adulthood is closely related to obesity in childhood.

Of course, if a child is obese when he is young, it does not necessarily mean that he will be obese when he grows up, but the probability is very high. In fact, a fat baby is likely to grow into a fat child, who will then have an even greater chance of becoming a fat teenager, and then a fat adult. Statistics show that the chance of an obese baby remaining obese when he is 5 to 8 years old is 1 in 5, and the chance of a fat child becoming obese when he grows up is twice that of an average person. Obese teenagers are more than 16 times more likely to become obese adults than the general population.

What are the reasons why babies are prone to obesity?

1. Genetics Generally speaking, if both parents are fat, the child has an 80% chance of being fat. If one of the parents is fat, the chance drops to 40%. If neither parent is fat, the child has only a 7% chance of being obese.

2. Body type

In addition to the genetic tendency to be obese, the baby may also inherit a body shape that is easier or more difficult to be obese. There are three main body types of babies:

1. The thin physique is also called the "banana type". Babies with this body type are considered to have fingers that can play the piano when they are born. Their feet are also long and thin. Their energy is mainly used to grow in height rather than in weight, and they consume more calories. Being better at adjusting diet and intake according to the level of exercise, you won’t get fat even if you eat a lot, and now you will become the object of envy of many people.

2. The athletic physique is also called the "apple type". Apple-shaped babies have a relatively uniform height and weight, and are more likely to gain weight than banana-shaped babies.

3. Fat physique, "pear-shaped". Babies with a chubby physique are most likely to be too thin because the pear-shaped surface can hold more fat.

The above is a distinction of the basic body shapes of babies, but it is worth noting that not all babies can be strictly classified according to these three categories. Some babies have characteristics of all three categories at the same time, so the specific situation needs to be considered comprehensively.