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Fat infants at risk of being obese toddlers-study
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 30 - 03 - 2009


Infants who gain too much
weight as babies are more likely to grow into obese toddlers,
showing the importance of early eating habits, researchers said
on Monday.
Watching children while they eat for cues about when they
are full and encouraging them to drink plenty of water may help
control their weight, according to two studies in the journal
Pediatrics.
Obesity rates among U.S. children have doubled in the last
20 years, and almost a third of American children are either
overweight or obese. The epidemic of obesity is linked to a
host of health problems such as higher risks for heart disease,
diabetes and cancer.
Researchers at Harvard University and Children's Hospital,
Boston, divided 559 children into four groups based on
measurements of their weights and heights at birth, six months
and age 3. Nearly one of 10 children were obese at 3.
Those heaviest at birth and those gaining the most weight
through age 6 months together had a 40 percent higher
probability of being obese at age 3.
"(This) suggests that it is rapid weight gain in infancy
that puts children at risk" more than heavy birth weight, Elsie
Taveras and fellow researchers wrote.
Obesity at age 3 does not necessarily translate into
obesity later in childhood or adulthood, but it raises the
risks, they said.
The Harvard researchers said it was important to educate
parents and other caregivers to improve infant diets and to
help them recognize when children are full.
A second study in the journal by Rebecca Muckelbauer and
colleagues at the Research Institute of Child Nutrition in
Dortmund, Germany, found an easy way to keep children from
gaining too much weight was to encourage them to drink more
water.
Water fountains were installed in schools in poor areas of
Dortmund and Essen, Germany, and 1,641 second- and
third-graders were urged to drink more water. They drank the
equivalent of an extra glass of water a day compared to
children not given the encouragement.
Those who drank more water lowered their risk of becoming
overweight by 31 percent.


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