{"id":268,"date":"2011-05-09T11:59:45","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T03:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klinikong.com\/?p=268"},"modified":"2011-05-09T11:59:45","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T03:59:45","slug":"prolonged-bottle-feed-increases-obesity-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/09\/prolonged-bottle-feed-increases-obesity-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Prolonged bottle feed increases obesity risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\">Babies who are bottle-fed until the age of two are more likely to be obese when they start school, a US study suggests.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpeds.com\/article\/S0022-3476(11)00242-3\/abstract\">Writing in the Journal of Pediatrics<\/a>, researchers found that children who were still regular bottle users at 24 months were 30% more likely to be obese aged five-and-a-half.<\/p>\n<p>They analysed data from nearly 7,000 children across the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Experts say bottle-feeding can make babies consume too many calories.<\/p>\n<p>The research found 22% of the two-year-olds studied were using a bottle as their main drink container, or were put to bed with a bottle containing a calorie-filled drink.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly a quarter of this group were found to be obese aged five, compared with 16% of children who had not been using a bottle at the age of two.<\/p>\n<p>For more, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/health-13294632\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Babies who are bottle-fed until the age of two are more likely to be obese when they start school, a US study suggests. Writing in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[49,53,148,244,284],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body","tag-bottle","tag-breast","tag-feeding","tag-obesity","tag-risk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}