This must be why I (fat, and I don't mean like Kate Winslet, I mean
like the Fat Ladies of culinary fame) have a 7 y.o. stringbean (bf till
her 5th birthday, no less).  And no, we're not vegetarians, nor even
particularly obsessive about what goes into her mouth.

I know, I know, the plural of "anecdote" is not "data", but I had to
put this in.

Rachael Hamlet
Bf busybody

On 16 Jul 99, at 7:21, Magda Sachs wrote:

> This is the abstract of a paper in this week's journal:
>
> Breast feeding seems to reduce the risk of obesity in children
>
> Obesity in childhood increases the risk of cardiovascular disease in
> adulthood. Weight loss interventions in children are costly and often do
> not have satisfactory results. On p 147 von Kries et al report their
> findings on the relation between childhood obesity and breast feeding.
> Using data from 9357 of the 134 577 children examined for the 1997 school
> entry health examination in Bavaria, they found that the risk of obesity
> at age 5 or 6 years could be reduced by 35% if children were exclusively
> breast fed for 3 to 5 months. The risk can be reduced even further if
> children are breast fed for longer than 5 months. Preventing childhood
> obesity and its consequences may be important arguments in the drive to
> promote breast feeding in industrialised countries.
>
> Magda Sachs
> Breastfeeding Supporter, BfN, UK
>

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