Prolonged bottle feeding increases overweight children risk: study (HealthDay)

babies who drink with 2 years of a bottle are prone to obesity be they may 5, in turn, a new study suggests.

For the study, researchers analyzed data on 6,750 children longitudinal study in early childhood, birth cohort, participated in the children of some to the United States have included born 2001.

About 22 percent of children continue to bottles regularly i.e. on 24 months, mainly drink from a bottle or were put to bed with one.

At the age of 5 1/2 about 23 percent of children were obese, out of a bottle at the age of 2 years potion, compared to 16 percent of children who had stopped a bottle by age 2, according to the study.

This makes children nor a bottle at the age of 2 years with about 33 percent were rather than overweight children weaned earlier, the researchers said.

Probably an explanation for the finding: children who drink from a bottle in the age of 2 are likely consume more calories than they need, said the study authors.

"In older children the bottle more likely used to comfort and convenience as food", said study author lead Rachel Gooze, doctoral student in public health at the Temple University's Center for obesity research and education in Philadelphia.

The study will be published in an upcoming issue of the journal of Pediatrics.

Children were considered obese if at or above the 95th percentile for their age was their body mass index [BMI, a ratio of weight to height]. The proportion of the 5th in the study, which about obese other national statistics were monitored, said obesity in preschoolers in about one in five places, Gooze.

Experts have long parents their children out of the bottle around age one wean encouraged.

The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry recommends parents children from a bottle to about age 12 to 14 months to wean to avoid, that to avoid a baby bed with a bottle caries.

The American Academy of Pediatrics has a similar recommendation, noted that "the bottle completely up to the age an and [should] be abandoned almost certainly of eighteen months." opened

Other research has that longer bottle can help use iron deficiency, according to background information, the study suggested.

For the study, the researchers accounted for other factors that whether children were breastfed infants and the time of the introduction of solid foods could affect obesity in 5-year-olds, including an obese mother, socio-economic status. (they have no information about the children exercise.)

Although children, control for these factors, from a bottle in the age of 2 years drink were rather obese as children who had to a bowl, said the researchers.

Bottle-feeding breast milk or quiet, young children must in the first year of life providing adequate nutrition in a time of rapid growth, said Dr. Roya Samuels, a pediatrician at the Steven and Alexandra Cohen children medical center of New York.

Between 4 and 6 months old, babies should eat solid foods that the child's main source of nutrition, are gradually Samuels said begin. A typical 1-year-old needed only about 10 to 16 ounces whole milk per day, in a "choose healthy food, table" she said. Parents should limit, fruit and vegetable juices to no longer than 4 ounces per day and the rest of liquids water, should be consumed, added they add.

"If parents feeding breast milk infant time further, it is probably children are consuming too many calories during the day, what to excessive weight gain in the childhood," Samuels said, pointing out that this new study is among the first, Children follow in the course of time to determine how long bottle you use can affect weight.

Of the opinionated and stubborn toddler abzuringen a bottle is not easy, especially for younger brothers and sisters in the House, which is always a bottle.

Gooze recommends that parents discuss weaning strategies with their pediatrician, and change their own way of thinking about the development. Rather than thinking of when, you look at it as a sign that your baby is another milestone, they achieve weaning something the child said.

"We definitely see stop the bottle at a year old is not easy, and end it can be even more difficult with 2 years," she said. "It could be useful to move from a bottle in a cup as a developmental milestone, like moving from the crawl for hiking, which is to celebrate something, even if it challenges to think."

By Jenifer Goodwin

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