The article says that that girl is going to be featured on a program called "Britain's Biggest Babies." I've seen plenty of toddlers who looked much bigger than her. Also odd that the article focuses a lot on her mother, and just mentions her father once in passing.

Stir Fry Rice wine vinegar can be your friend: Unflavored rice wine vinegar, sweetener of your choice (but molasses is really good in stir fry) and soy sauce. The combo I use for two fairly often is 1/2 cup rice wine vinegar, 2 teaspoons molasses, 1 tablespoon soy sauce, a quarter teaspoon sesame oil and two teaspoons bland oil (like safflower), two table spoons wine or beer. Spicing: garlic, chinese five spice and ginger. If you are not watching sodium you add more soy sauce. If you are not watching calories you can add more oil and more molasses (but not a lot more molasses unless you like really sweet stir fry). Scale up for number of people you are cooking for.

The bottled sauces are also good, but very hard to control sodium or sugar with them. Mixing your own is easy, and gives you more control.

There's a gross article in this month's Marie Claire about a woman who was told by her doctor that she was "obese" at nearly 6 feet and like 175. Dude. (Edit: and even looking at a BMI calculator, at most she was edging into the "overweight" category, so DUDE.)

Also, is a stone 14 lbs? I got into a huge thing about that at a bar recently, and forgot until now to find out the real answer!

a woman who was told by her doctor that she was "obese" at nearly 6 feet and like 175. Dude.

Stabby. Stabby stabby stabby.

Also odd that the article focuses a lot on her mother, and just mentions her father once in passing.

That's because the state of the children is wimmin's work, doncha know. She gets to take on all the blame and shame.

The more I think about this, the more I'm going to write a letter to the editor. Because being at the top of the "OK" category is STILL OK.

Once, when I went to the student health center with something like my fourth case of tonsillitis that winter, the doctor told me that there was nothing wrong with my throat and that my only problem was that I needed to lose 60 pounds. I checked the BMI calculator, and losing 60 pounds would have put me at borderline underweight.

My nephew's school sent home a letter saying he was in danger of obesity and wanted to set up an appointment with a nutritionist. They obviously didn't look at the child and only looked at his age and weight. The kid is a full head taller than the other kids in his class. Of course he's gonna weigh more.

Once, when I went to the student health center with something like my fourth case of tonsillitis that winter, the doctor told me that there was nothing wrong with my throat and that my only problem was that I needed to lose 60 pounds.

Stabby!!!!!!!!!!!ELEVENTY!!!!!!!!!!

“If we just went running out of the cave as little cave babies and stuck anything in our mouths, that would have been potentially very dangerous,” Dr. Cooke said.

Um, is crawling around inside the cave sticking things in their mouths any safer? Or are we assuming that all cave-mommies were hard-core babywearers who never let the little ones out of their sight? (Now imagining a prehistoric Park Slope full of custom mamoth-print slings...)

Would anyone care if a kid was ultra skinny as long as she was healthy? (as this kid seems to be?)

Yes. Doctors (not all, but enough and more than should be) will diagnose happy healthy babies as "failure to thrive" if their weight falls too far off the standard growth charts. (Standard growth charts which reflect the average white American formula-fed baby from 1975, btw. Breastfed babies between 4-6 months of age do not look good on these charts, let me tell you. Breastfed babies of smaller-than-your-average-American ethnic backgrounds? Pretty much screwed.)