Does It Matter What Babies Eat?
Thursday, September 9, 2010 9:48Comments Off on Does It Matter What Babies Eat?
In the “people who need to be slapped” files, almost a quarter of parents had introduced fruit juices, biscuits and cakes to their babies by the time they were 6 months old.
The study, published in the journal Nutrition and Dietetics, found some babies as young as 1 month old had been introduced to high fat, salt and sugar foods.
Researcher Jane Scott and colleagues, tracked 587 women from two Perth maternity hospitals, through regular phone interviews for 12 months, to understand how the new mothers fed their babies. Says Scott,
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