Childhood Obesity

Nutritive factors influencing development of childhood obesity outlined

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, January 19th, 2004

The nutritive factors influencing the development of childhood obesity are outlined in a recent issue of the journal Monatsschrift Kinderheilkunde.

"Tremendous increases in the prevalence rates of overweight and obesity in children and adolescents require a search for possible causes and potential prevention strategies. Intrauterine and early infant nutrition are recognized as modifying factors for the development of obesity in adolescence and adulthood. Several recent investigations found that breastfeeding prevents obesity and overweight in later childhood and adolescence," a scientist in Austria reports.

"However, so far no causal and...

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