calicreature:

istandagainstweightbullying:

so excited to be a part of this awesome project with my tiny lady!! Thanks so much, Marilyn! xoxo!

It’s not acceptable for children to be overweight. I’m not saying children need to be picked on for their weight, & made to feel bad about it. But they also shouldn’t be told garbage about how it’s OKAY for them to be fat. Because it ISN’T okay. It’s a problem. One of the things that peeves me off the most is fat people having children, & these fat people turning their kids into fatties because the children get stuck eating just as poorly as what the parents do, & become just as lazy as what the parents are. If you want to live your life being a gross blob wasting away on your living room couch chowing down on pizzas, fine then, you go & do that. But at least have the decency to put some decent food in the house & make your child healthy meals ffs. Give them a chance at a healthy life instead of being a lazy good for nothing & sticking your child with the same miserable life that you’re living.

Btw I like how this says “children of all sizes” but all I see is some fat chick & a baby. Babies are all fat, people love that. I’m guessing the chick is the mother of the baby? I dunno. I don’t feel as though this image really has much to do with the text written here. Maybe the fat chick knows she’ll turn her baby into a supersized mini-me & is hoping by the time her child is six years old & waddling about that it won’t get made fun of. Lol~

http://www.springerlink.com/content/nq274521q17r6354/
Behavior Genetics. Volume 27, Number 4, 325-351, DOI: 10.1023/A:1025635913927. “Genetic and Environmental Factors in Relative Body Weight and Human Adiposity,” by Hermine H. M. Maes, Michael C. Neale and Lindon J. Eaves.
Abstract
We review the literature on the familial resemblance of body mass index (BMI) and other adiposity measures and find strikingly convergent results for a variety of relationships. Results from twin studies suggest that genetic factors explain 50 to 90% of the variance in BMI. Family studies generally report estimates of parent–offspring and sibling correlations in agreement with heritabilities of 20 to 80%. Data from adoption studies are consistent with genetic factors accounting for 20 to 60% of the variation in BMI. Based on data from more than 25,000 twin pairs and 50,000 biological and adoptive family members, the weighted mean correlations are .74 for MZ twins, .32 for DZ twins, .25 for siblings, .19 for parent–offspring pairs, .06 for adoptive relatives, and .12 for spouses. Advantages and disadvantages of twin, family, and adoption studies are reviewed. Data from the Virginia 30,000, including twins and their parents, siblings, spouses, and children, were analyzed using a structural equation model (Stealth) which estimates additive and dominance genetic variance, cultural transmission, assortative mating, nonparental shared environment, and special twin and MZ twin environmental variance. Genetic factors explained 67% of the variance in males and females, of which half is due to dominance. A small proportion of the genetic variance was attributed to the consequences of assortative mating. The remainder of the variance is accounted for by unique environmental factors, of which 7% is correlated across twins. No evidence was found for a special MZ twin environment, thereby supporting the equal environment assumption. These results are consistent with other studies in suggesting that genetic factors play a significant role in the causes of individual differences in relative body weight and human adiposity.