Breastfeeding babies won't prevent obesity in adulthood: Study

 

http://www.thestar.com/News/article/206476

 

Apr 23, 2007 11:59 PM 

Associated Press



ATLANTA - While breastfeeding has many benefits, it won't prevent a child
from becoming fat as an adult, says a new study that challenges dogma from
U.S. health officials.

The research is the largest study to date on breastfeeding and its effect on
adult obesity.

<snip>

 

[Janice here - the question in most of these studies is how is breastfeeding
defined, both in duration and exclusivity.  Here's some hints about this
study:]

When possible, researchers checked medical records to confirm what the
mothers and daughters recalled, but breastfeeding is not routinely
documented. Still, the researchers believe the women's recollections of
breastfeeding are reliable.

"A mother knows whether she breast-fed her child," said Michels, an
associate professor of epidemiology.

Women who were breast-fed for at least a week had a risk of being overweight
or obese that was nearly identical to that of women who were bottle-fed, the
study found. And duration of breastfeeding didn't seem to make a difference.
The women who had been breast-fed for more than nine months had a risk of
becoming overweight or obese similar to that of women breast-fed less than
one week.

 

(see link above for full article)

The link to the Journal is here, but the May issue doesn't seem to be
on-line yet.  I couldn't find the article

http://www.nature.com/ijo/journal/v31/n4/index.html

 

Janice Reynolds

 

 

 


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