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Effects of Foods on the Weight of Infants by the Age of Three Years
Author(s) -
COY J. F.,
LONGMORE E. A.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
journal of paediatrics and child health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.631
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1440-1754
pISSN - 1034-4810
DOI - 10.1111/jpc.1978.14.3.163
Subject(s) - medicine , pediatrics , overweight , birth weight , calorie , body weight , weight for age , obesity , demography , anthropometry , pregnancy , sociology , biology , genetics
Coy, J. F. and Longmore, E. A. (1978). Aust. Paediatr. J ., 14, 163–164. Effects of foods on the weight of infants by the age of three years. In 1974 a feeding survey of 396 babies was conducted throughout Tasmania. Subsequent weight measurements were taken when the children reached the ages of one and three years to provide data to relate feeding patterns in Infancy with later weight. There is no indication that overweight in three‐year‐old children is related to high calorie intake of extra food by three months of age, nor to the type of milk feeding by this age. Relationships between weight at different ages confirm that three‐year weight is less highly correlated with weight at birth than with weight at one year.