Five Ways to Protect Your Baby from Obesity

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Five Ways to Protect Your Baby from Obesity


Drs. Roizen and Oz posted a very nice article today that I want all parents to be aware of: they note five ways to protect your baby from future obesity.

Childhood obesity now effects 18 percent for kids 6 to 11 in North America. So is the fact that only 16 percent of kids now walk or bike to school (in 1969, 42 percent did) and only 2.1 percent of elementary and 3.8 percent of middle schools have daily physical education classes. 

All this increases your child’s risk of high LDL cholesterol, hypertension, respiratory ailments, orthopedic problems, depression, obesity and type 2 diabetes by the time he or she is a teenager. 

But moms and dads have a lot of power to reverse that trend with a few simple steps. A new study shows that problems of obesity and diabetes start earlier than preschool — and there are five powerful ways parents can help newborns get started out right: 

–Postpone introducing solid food until a child is 6 months old. 

–Breastfeed for at least that length of time. (Breastfeeding boosts brain growth in babies.) 

–Once they eat solid food NEVER dish up sodas or fast food. 

–Make sure your child sleeps in a room WITHOUT a TV. Disrupted sleep and sleeping in a lighted room can lead to stress and overeating and trigger all kinds of physical and developmental problems. 

–Make sure your infant gets at least 12 hours of peaceful sleep a day. 

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