The New York Times Magazine 8/ 5/ 07
All Immigration Politics Is Local Page 18
A man named Michael Cawthorne and a few friends from the Clore Laboratory at Britain's university of Buckingham, wants to create a baby formula to make baby's metabolism's resist gaining to much weight. They want to supplement regular formula with this formula that has leptin in it which is a hormone that appears in a baby's brain and regulates what calories will be stored in the body as fat or what the body will burn off. They want to make this formula because of the obesity rate rising.
some factors to why baby's are or might be overweight or are later in life can be caused by different reasons. One reason is how hot is is in the baby's home. The heat can have an effect on the baby's number of sweat glands they have later in life. Another cause can be the amount of stress the mother is during her pregnancy, the stress has an impact on the baby and can later follow them through life.
Cawthorne the man who wants to create this formula, has been testing this on animals because it is to new to try on humans just yet. Because of the safety treatment they must use, they have to be careful with the dose of leptin and when they give it to the baby. They hope to use this to end obesity in the future.
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So I think that this is a stupid idea because they'll probibly end up with some type of disorder or something that will affect the human race.
ReplyDeleteI think they shouldn't even be thinking of the baby when they come out at first. They just need to pay more attention to the health of the baby and the different activities in school.