Study suggests that longer bottle feeding increases the risk of obesity

Experts agree that obesity should begin prevention before children enter school. But due to mangelnder conclusive data, health care providers have problems often advice parents about the interventions most beneficial are. A new study is soon in the journal of Pediatrics published suggests that longer bottle limit use in children can be an effective way to obesity to prevent.

Dr. Robert Whitaker and Rachel Gooze of Center for obesity research and education at Temple University, and Dr. Sarah Anderson of the Ohio State University College of public health, analyzed data from the early childhood longitudinal study, birth cohort, a large national study of children in the year 2001. You analyze data to estimate 6750 children to the association between bottle use in 24 months of age and the risk of obesity at 5.5 years.

The studied children were 22% longer bottle users, which means that with 2 years it used a bottle container as their primary drink and/or have been put to bed with a bottle calories-containing. Almost 23% of users of the longer bottle were obese at the the time they were 5.5 years old. "Children were still a bottle after 24 months were about 30% more likely obese at 5.5 years, also on other factors such as mother's weight, birth weight of the child, accounting, and feeding practices in childhood" Dr. Whitaker notes.

Drinking from a bottle of mill opened can contribute to obesity by the child consume too many calories. "A 24-month old girl, the average weight and height to bed with a 8-ounce bottle of whole milk is placed about 12% of your daily caloric from this bottle would get," said Rachel Gooze. She realizes that children out of the bottle by the time they are 1 year old weaning unlikely, that is to damage and prevent obesity that can. The authors suggest that pediatricians and other health professionals with parents, to find acceptable solutions for the setting to work bottle use on the first birthday of the child.

"Long bottle use and obesity with 5.5 years in US children"
Rachel A. Gooze, MPH, Sarah E. Anderson, PhD, and Robert C. Whitaker, MD, MPH
The journal of Pediatrics, DOI 10.1016/j.jpeds.2011.02.037, published by Elsevier.

source:medicalnewstoday