HealthDay Reporter by Jenifer Goodwin
HealthDay Reporter - Thu May 5 11: 47 pm et
(Thursday, may 5, HealthDay News) - babies who are still drinking a bottle at the age of 2 years may be prone to obesity at the time wherever they turn 5, a new study suggests.
The study, researchers analyzed data on 6.750 children who participated in the Early Childhood Longitudinal study, birth cohort, which included children from the four corners of the United States, born in 2001.
About 22% of children continue to use bottles regularly at 24 months, which means that they drank a bottle or have been in bed with a primarily.
At the age of 5 1/2, approximately 23% of the children who drank a bottle at the age of 2 years were obese, compared to about 16% of children who had stopped using a bottle by age 2, according to the study.
That makes children even with a bottle at the age of 2 years approximately 33% more likely to be obese children who have been weaned early, researchers have said.
A plausible explanation for the conclusion: children who are still drinking a bottle at the age of 2 are probably consuming more calories that they need, the study authors say.
"Elderly, the bottle is probably used to the comfort and convenience rather than on food," says senior study author Rachel Gooze, doctoral candidate in public health at Temple University the Centre for obesity research and education in Philadelphia.
The study will be published in an upcoming issue of the journal of Pediatrics.
Children were considered obese if their body mass [BMI, a ratio of weight to height] index has reached or exceeds the 95th percentile for their age. The proportion of 5 years in the study who were obese approximately followed other national statistics which place the rate of obesity among children of pre-school age in approximately one in five, said Gooze.
Experts have long encouraged parents to Sèvres, children of the bottle around age one.
The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry advises parents of children of a bottle on the ages of 12 to 14 months of wean and to avoid a baby to bed with a bottle to prevent tooth decay.
The American Academy of Pediatrics has a similar recommendation, recalling that "the bottle [should] be fully attributed to age autour an and almost certainly by 18 months.".
Other research has suggested that prolonged use bottle may contribute to iron deficiency, according to the information in context to the study.
For the study, the researchers accounted for other factors that could influence obesity in 5 years, including having a mother obese, socioeconomic status, if children were breastfed as infants and the time of the introduction of solid foods. (They had no information about the physical activity of children).
Even when the control of these factors, the children who drank a bottle at the age of 2 years were more likely to be obese than children who had graduated to a cut, the researchers said.
Feeding bottle or breastfeeding infants is necessary in the first year of life to provide adequate nutrition during a period of rapid growth, said Dr. Roya Samuels, a pediatrician at the Steven and Medical Center in New York Alexandra Cohen children.
Between 4 and 6 months of age, babies should begin to eat solid foods, which will become little by little the main source of a child of food, Samuels said. She said that about 10 to 16 ounces of whole milk per day, and a "healthy food table assortment", is in need of a typical of 1 year. Parents should limit fruit juice and vegetables to not more than 4 ounces per day and the rest of consumed liquids should be water, she added.
"If parents continue feeding bottle in the toddler period, it is likely children consume too many calories during the day, leading to excessive weight gain, in childhood" Samuels said, noting that this new study was among the first to follow the children over time to determine how prolonged bottle use "". may affect their weight.
A bottle of far a toddler views and stubborn deprive by force is not easy, especially if he has a younger brother in the House gets a bottle.
Gooze recommends that parents discuss withdrawal strategies with their pediatrician and also change their own mentality on the transition. Rather than suggest withdrawal as take something of the child, watch as a sign that your baby reached another milestone, said.
"We recognize definitively stop the bottle at the age of one year is not easy, and stopping at the age of 2 years may be even more difficult," she said. "It could be useful to think of passing a bottle to cut like a stage of development, such as moving from crawling to walking, which is something to celebrate, even if it challenges".
More information
The Nemours Foundation has tips for making the transition from bottle to Cup.
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