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HockeyMom

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3. I LIKE being small

Reply to adieu (Reply #2)

Mon Feb 17, 2014, 06:08 PM

Feb 2014

Tough. If you are healthy, what the hell difference does it make what your size is? This sounds far too much like the "perfect race" theory. Who started that? No, thank you. We don't need to be perfect according to science. I resent that.

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Birth weight is strongly affected by the mother’s own diet as a child [View all] bananas Feb 2014 OP

I weighed 98 lbs, before I had my first daughter HockeyMom Feb 2014 #1

I don't think you fully understood the claim being presented here adieu Feb 2014 #2

I LIKE being small HockeyMom Feb 2014 #3

Forget it. Trying to teach science to idiots is beyond my capabilities. adieu Feb 2014 #6

My nickname in school was Bugs Bunny HockeyMom Feb 2014 #7

What is wrong with you? There's nothing in the article about creating some 'perfect' race. It's El_Johns Feb 2014 #12

I'm sorry I replied to you in the first place adieu Feb 2014 #15

Reading comprehension is hard. nt valerief Feb 2014 #14

Small and healthy is just fine. But low birth weight is often correlated with being less healthy pnwmom Feb 2014 #11

How heavy is "perfect"? HockeyMom Feb 2014 #21

I don't think there is a "perfect," unless it is the size a baby would be pnwmom Feb 2014 #22

I gained 27 and 29 lbs back in the 70s and 80s HockeyMom Feb 2014 #23

Of course the male genetics played a factor. Your weight gain was exactly in the range pnwmom Feb 2014 #24

Alabama refuses to endorse this study. al_liberal Feb 2014 #4

It doesn't matter what the mother's diet is while she is pregnant, but it matters what the grandmoth notadmblnd Feb 2014 #5

My Mom was born in 1920 HockeyMom Feb 2014 #8

It doesn't say the mother's diet doesn't matter. But the grandmother's diet also matters, because El_Johns Feb 2014 #10

Thanks for posting that. It explains a number of things about myself, my mother and grandmother. n/t freshwest Feb 2014 #19

I didn't eat much when I was little Mz Pip Feb 2014 #9

It says it's nutrition in the womb, as a baby and toddler muriel_volestrangler Feb 2014 #16

This message was self-deleted by its author joshcryer Feb 2014 #13

Interesting laundry_queen Feb 2014 #17

The study doesn't work for me either. mackerel Feb 2014 #18

Epigenetics jpak Feb 2014 #20