Kids who have milk cereal drinks during infancy at higher risk of obesity
Children are at a
higher risk of being overweight
if they have consumed milk cereal drinks every day during infancy, a new study
has found.
The study was published in the
journal 'Acta Paediatrica'.
"Milk
cereal drinks are not bad as such; how it's used is the problem. That
is when it's seen not as a meal but as an extra, to supplement other
food," said Bernt Alm, Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Sahlgrenska
Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
The researchers behind the study
have previously linked consumption of milk cereal drinks at age six months to
high body mass index (BMI) at ages one year and one and a half years. The study
now presented is of the same group of children, several years later.
The follow-up study comprised
1,870 children in Halland County, Sweden whose particulars were taken from the
Halland Health and Growth Study. Height and weight data were recorded by the
child health services, while the information on their food and beverage intake
was given by the parents. Read
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