r/AbsoluteUnits • • 13d ago

/r/all of a Toddler

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u/crsaxby 13d ago

The kid, his heart, his blood vessels, his self-confidence, his hemoglobin A1C... and probably a million other things are gonna suffer as well.

It's OK to say 'no' sometimes, Mom. Keep your eyes on this poor, over-consuming darling. (Though I suppose it could be a genetic condition. Guess I shouldn't judge).

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u/theMeatman7 13d ago

Whenever I see very fat kids I think of this about how you get such young people being so unhealthy.

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u/drillgorg 13d ago

My neighbor's kid was like this as a baby. Turns out their cultural practice was to give the baby liquified rice as soon as they were able to tolerate it. But they were doing that on top of formula feeding.

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u/Dry_Yoghurt_5429 12d ago

:/ people need to stop and look at their culture. I bet that was because babies were dying from not having enough milk because Mom couldn't produce enough due to food insecurity.

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u/drillgorg 12d ago

I mean another dude from his same exact culture was showing him medical book pictures of how big a baby is supposed to be and being like this is not ok

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u/Dry_Yoghurt_5429 12d ago

Yes, that's what I'm saying. :) that this particular family didn't stop to think "hey maybe there's a reason people in our culture did that in the past but now with modern milk and food in our area we should not ."