Breast-feeding children do not get fat

A German scientist published a research report in the latest issue of the American Medical Journal that breastfeeding can reduce the chances of infants becoming obese after they grow up. The results of this study will play an important role in promoting breastfeeding.

In industrialized countries, 60% of pregnant women give breast-feeding babies after delivery, but most of them are weaned at 2 months. The German scholars conducted a follow-up study on 9,357 children in Bavaria, Germany, and found that mothers still breastfeed 3 to 5 months old babies. In the future, the chance of getting fat when a child grows up to five or six years old is early. Weaning children have a one-third chance of getting fat. Studies have shown that children who have only breastmilk during infancy, the sooner they switch from baby food to the school age, the less likely they are to gain weight.

The baby only eats breastmilk before six months of age. The chance of getting fat when the child grows up to five or six years old is 43% lower than that of the average child. Breastfeeding until the full-year-old baby is 72% lower than normal children.

Posted on May 16, 2018