Big Baby, Heavier Kid?

By Robert Preidt Source: https://medlineplus.gov/news/fullstory_167252.html A study suggests these infants could benefit from early interventions to avoid obesity in childhood. Those chubby baby cheeks that everyone loves to squeeze may signal an increased risk for childhood obesity, a new study suggests. Researchers looked at more than 10,000 children in the United States and found that those who were more than 10 pounds at birth were 69 percent more likely than average-weight babies to be obese by kindergarten. This risk continued at least until the second grade, when the study ended. By the second grade, about 23 percent of children with a high birth weight were obese, compared with about 14 percent of children with an average birth weight. The study could not prove that being a big baby caused obesity in children, however. The University of Virginia Children’s Hospital study also