Will your oldest child be obese?

In Peques and Más we talk a lot about the childhood obesity, one of the disorders of the 21st century in the developed civilization and which, as Dr. Santi reminds us, is one of the main causes of early type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disorders and premature deaths.

I have collected, from its always recommended website, a test to identify from the moment of birth what is the risk of obesity during childhood. For this, the test requires a series of very simple data that calculates an estimate of whether you will be obese in the future. How do you do it? It is very simple, it is about applying a formula, developed and published recently by some researchers and that, I imagine, uses the statistical information of multiple cases. The test key It is that you just have to enter the BMI (body mass index of the parents), the number of members living in the house, the activity of the mother, if the mother smoked during pregnancy and the weight of the baby at birth.

The test is available as a calculator and also allows you to download a file in Excel to perform the calculation without being connected. Everything is in English although since Google was invented and the translator everything is very simple.

I recommend doing the test and, if the answer is reassuring, then continue maintaining what is being done and if it is less reasonable, it would be convenient to make some change always agreed with a specialist.

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