Study: Mom's diet won't hurt baby

(AP) - A new study offers the best evidence yet that overweight
mothers who breast-feed can diet and exercise without stunting their
babies' growth. Some nutritionists and mothers have worried that a
weight-loss regimen might reduce a woman's ability to produce breast
milk and deprive her baby of nourishment. In a study in Thursday's
New England Journal of Medicine, researchers at the University of
North Carolina at Greensboro studied 40 exclusively breast-feeding
women who were overweight. The women were randomly assigned either to
diet and exercise or to keep up their usual diet with little
exercise. During the 10-week experiment, mothers in the
diet-and-exercise group lost an average of one pound a week. Yet
their babies gained four pounds and grew three inches, much like
those of the other mothers. See
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