Attention all mothers of daughters!

[poodicat]

A new study from sweden have found that girls who are underweight at the age of seven are more likely than who are larger to develop aggressive, harder to treat types of tumours when they get older

[B00]

So we stuff 'em till they're obese and they are then prone to heart problems?

[ummmm]

At least you used one comma for a change.

[askyourgran]

That is not nice to know poodi. My daughter is now 40 touch wood she's OK. I don't think she was underweight when she was 7 years old neither was my granddaughter. This could be hard to prove.

[boxtops]

Poodi, I'd like to see the study before I start worrying about that. It depends how wide the research was, what the evidence base is. I fear that the worry about children being underweight would frighten people into fattening up fit thin young children, whereas at the moment the fact that so many children are overweight is presenting them with far more potential problems in later life in terms of long term illnesses when they grow up. It all depends, too, on the scale of the underweight - how underweight does the child have to be in order for this risk to be exacerbated? Do you have a link?

[poodicat]

If you wish to post a answer that is related to the question, all well and good

[B00]

What question?

[NoMercy]

Ummmm... lmao.

[poodicat]

Just relaying the swedish study on 6,000 women

[poodicat]

Sorry should have a response relating to the thread

[4getmenot]

research like this does my head in when I read it. They say too many tomatoes gives you cancer they say tomatoes help fight cancer blah blah blah. I beleive cancer is in you, you are either born with the gene or arent

[tamborine]

I was anorexic & not had any tumours - yet (t.wood). Nor my siblings, who ate normally. Methinks its more in the genes.

As for correcting grammar:

"...At least, you used one comma for a change..." Think it's time you dropped the bitchiness ummmm !

[poodicat]

Agree forget, but when it comes from sweden and not america,i agree more research has to be done in this area to find out exactly why skinny girls are at a greater risk.

[ummmm]

Chuck posted this a few days ago.....I think it's relevant to other papers and studies...(it's funny)

http://www.dananddan.com/?p=68

[ummmm]

Tambo...yeah right.

[4getmenot]

because its coincidence that these skinny girls they researched got it.

[ummmm]

My poor skinny daughter......

[poodicat]

Ummm you are what tambourine said

[ummmm]

And you're thick.

[NoMercy]

Tony's daughter was always thin as a rake, no matter how much she ate. She got breast cancer at 20 and was dead at 27 from metastatic breast cancer and cerebral metastases. But then cancer is something that has afflicted his family through the generations. I believe it's more to do with genetics than anything else.