To me it is clear that there is a correlation between obesity and artificial
feeding in the first few days of life.  Especially since the industry has
been supplying the hospitals with bottles and nipples. Our hospital works
with Ross -Abbot who have generously enlarged the holes and added a cross
cut to the nipples to produce a tsunami effect which causes babies' eyes to
bulge out of their heads, and until they figure out how to slow down the
flow, they drink way more than a human infant should consume at that stage
of his life.  

http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/111/15/1897

However, the studies are still not fingering the correct reason for this
rise in obesity in the last few years.  

 

 


Esther Grunis, IBCLC

Lis Maternity Hospital

Tel Aviv, Israel

 


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