A human baby is born fatter than a seal pup, and nearly all of that fat is there to feed one organ. A newborn human is about 15% fat. A newborn baboon is about 3%. No other primate arrives carrying anything close, and the mother spends the last ten weeks of pregnancy laying most of it down. The baby's brain takes more than half of everything the baby burns at rest. Within days of birth a breastfed baby is in ketosis, running that brain partly on fat and building it out of the same material. Breast milk delivers about half its calories as fat. It carries more cholesterol, weight for weight, than the mother has been told is safe for her. It contains almost no starch, because there is nothing in a newborn that could use any. Every mammal on earth weans its young onto the adult diet of the species.A human baby is born fatter than a seal pup, and nearly all of that fat is there to feed one organ. A newborn human is about 15% fat. A newborn baboon is about 3%. No other primate arrives carrying anything close, and the mother spends the last ten weeks of pregnancy laying most of it down. The baby's brain takes more than half of everything the baby burns at rest. Within days of birth a breastfed baby is in ketosis, running that brain partly on fat and building it out of the same material. Breast milk delivers about half its calories as fat. It carries more cholesterol, weight for weight, than the mother has been told is safe for her. It contains almost no starch, because there is nothing in a newborn that could use any. Every mammal on earth weans its young onto the adult diet of the species. The human infant spends nine months being fattened and six more on the fattiest drink its mother can make, and is then handed a spoonful of baby rice.
— Sama Hoole (@SamaHoole) November 11, 2026
The human infant spends nine months being fattened and six more on the fattiest drink its mother can make, and is then handed a spoonful of baby rice.
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