Your Fat Baby Does Not Need To Diet

Your Fat Baby Does Not Need To Diet | Care2 Causes:

A recently published study in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine describes a correlation between babies whose weight-to-height ratios increased more than 2 percent in their first 2 years of life and obesity rates when the children were older. Babies who grew at such rates had twice the risk of being obese at age 5, as well as an increased risk of obesity at age of 10. Babies whose weight-to-height ratio went up more than 2 percent in their first 6 months were especially at risk of obesity in later childhood, says the study.

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