What (TF?) About the Children?
April 25th, 2007
Study confirms that children overeat significantly when exposed to food advertising. Like, by 134%.
Our research confirms food TV advertising has a profound effect on all children’s eating habits doubling their consumption rate … suggesting a strong connection between weight and susceptibility to overeating when exposed to food adverts on television.
In addition to that sensible news item, there were some very random revelations made today. For example, breast feeding your children won’t prevent childhood obesity. And if you get your period early, you will be short, and your child will probably be fat.
Science is funny.
Posted by mo pie
Filed under: Advertising, International, Kids, Science
Holy crap! I AM short and overweight and I got my period at age 11.
My sister didn’t get her period until she was 14, like my mother, and neither of them are as short or fat as I am.
Weird!
Hah, me too! I got my period at eleven and I only grew to five feet.
Except: what’s early? The linked piece doesn’t say; it just says “earlier” or “later.” I got mine when I was 12, and I’m 5′9″ (no kids, hoping to keep it that way, so I don’t know about the child-weight thing), so is that early or late or normal?
Also, doesn’t excess weight lead to earlier periods? Seems like these may be just be two things linked to being on the bigger side–earlier periods, plus genetic tendency to gain weight, which we pass on to our kids.
My sister got her period when she was 11 and I got mine when I was 13…
She’s 3 inches taller then me…I’m 5′7″….
She’s also always been thinner.
I don’t know when my mother got her period, but she’s taller than me and she had one daughter who is tall and skinny, and another who is average height and fat. Clearly that study is flawed.
[...] know that junk food advertising geared toward children is probably a bad idea. But how about advertising geared towards “ordinary people.” [...]
Anecdotal evidence, of course, but I got my period at age nine (yes, you read that right), and I barely clear five foot one. Plus, I’ve always been plump. Yay, science!
I got my period at 9 1/2 and was always 5′6 1/2″ 120 lbs. Now at 56 I’m 5′5 and, well let’s just say I’m bigger than I am shorter!