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|  Infant weight gain linked to childhood obesity (EurekAlert!)
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( Harvard Medical School ) An ongoing study of pregnant women and their babies has found that rapid weight gain during the first six months of life may place a child at risk for obesity by age three. Researchers studied 559 children, measuring both weight and body length at birth, six months, and three years. They found that sudden gains throughout early infancy influenced later obesity more so ...
published 03-29-2009 11:25 PM
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