Fat Moms Have Stupider Kids

Fat Moms Have Stupider Kids:
Don't
blame me for the title, but perhaps it's best that Ohio State University
researchers politely stated their study result as thus:

Women who are obese before they become pregnant are at higher risk
of having children with lower cognitive function - as measured by math
and reading tests taken between ages 5 to 7 years - than are mothers
with a healthy prepregnancy weight, new research suggests. [...]
The researchers calculated the mothers’ body mass index (BMI)
based on their reported heights and weights. More than half of mothers
had normal BMIs before pregnancy, and 9.6 percent were obese, meaning
they had a BMI of 30 or higher.
Controlling for all other variables, the analysis showed that maternal
prepregnancy obesity was negatively associated with math and reading
test scores. Children of obese women scored, on average, three points
lower on reading and two points lower on math than did children of healthy-weight
women. The mean reading score among all the children was 106.1 points
and the mean math score was 99.9.
Though the score differences seem small, Tanda noted that these effects
of prepregnancy obesity were equivalent to a seven-year decrease in
the mothers’ education and significantly lower family income,
two other known risk factors that negatively affect childhood cognitive
function.

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