For many people, it helps to teach them to take a new perspective on eating. Show them how to feed their body like you would any other fueled machine, matching its requirements to the food you put into it. This sort of objective viewpoint might be helpful for children with this problem. If they simply rely on their senses to tell them when to stop eating, the result is clear. We have extremely powerful brains, and we can use them to help counteract unfortunate disadvantages like the deadened taste sensation of these children. Unfortunately, the objective approach to food is one that is commonly maligned by many for "taking the joy out" of eating. In this case, a little more rationality may be helpful, since the basic "joy" of eating is sadly depressed in these individuals.

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I hope this "study" wasn't funded by taxpayers. My youngest suffered from chronic ear infections and is petite. She has been slender all her life. I think the underlying cause is how the children were raised. Do they see food as an enjoyable necessity or as a comfort? People who turn to food for comfort generally become obese and sometimes become bulimic to try to avoid becoming overweight. I was raised with the adage, "eat something you'll feel better", something I did not pass this along to my kids.

When I was little I got swimmers ear a lot. I am also obese, though now i am on Jenny Craig (sp) and losing weight. Living with my parents I always had healthy meals, my mom is a nurse practitioner. When I started to write this was I thinking no way, but then there could be a connection, but I think the researchers would need to consider what the kids are eating, how much exercise do they get, etc. I do agree with blondeness032 not every kid who gets a lot of ear infections get obese. It seems that whatever a kid gets it results in obesity.

Can only laugh at this one. My now 2 year old son had 5 year infections in one year and he is as thin as a pencil.

this article is full of it. Typical american hype and bs

Did any of you read the article? It said "Korean researchers", meaning the study was probably not done in the US. Besides, your anecdotal evidence doesn't disprove anything. Your experience may differ from the findings, but that's not science.

I came to these comments expecting to find people lambasting the headline's use of the phrase "make kids" as if there's a causal relationship asserted in the study. Chances are, there isn't. Correlation does not prove causation. Ear infections don't make kids fatter. There's probably something that mediates the relationship between weight and ear infections, and any article in a peer reviewed journal would likely have asserted that.

MSNBC needs a better health editor if they let headlines like this get through.