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Study links obesity to protein in infant formula
By Jess Halliday

20/04/2007 - The results of the EU Childhood Obesity Programme indicate that
low-protein content in infant formula may have metabolic, endocrinal and
developmental benefits for babies - which may also have an impact on obesity
at a later age.

Subject to further follow-up, the findings add weight to the idea that a
tendency towards obesity is set in earliest childhood. They come shortly
after another study indicated that tendency towards obesity could be
genetic. 

Professor Berthold Koletzko, project co-ordinator from the University of
Munich, Germany, said the results "emphasise the importance of promotion of
and support for breastfeeding, together with the development of the right
composition of infant formula, and support for the choice of appropriate
complementary food."

The study involved 990 infants and ran from October 2002 to July 2006, when
the youngest participants reached the age of two. 

The researchers hypothesised the primary hypothesis that one possible causal
factor for the difference in long-term obesity risk between breast and
formula-fed infants is the much lower protein content of breast milk
compared to infant formula.
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Judy Ritchie

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