Monday, February 7, 2011

Child Obesity Linked To 'Force-Fed' Solid Food

Parents urged to keep baby's diet milk-based for four months

By A. Scott Walton
Rumor has it that some of Hollywood's leading ladies have found a secret to staying slim and sexy: eating a diet consisting of baby food.
But scientists are now asserting that the opposite holds true for children. Too much baby food too soon, according to new studies, increases a child's potential of being obese by age three.
A clinical study cited by ABC News, among others, says that tots are more than six times more likely to be overweight than those infants who were breast-fed for at least the first four months.
But this raises a valid and frustrating question: What are those mothers who can't breast feed left with as healthy alternatives. Any ideas?
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