Early Nutrition: Its Long-Term Role

1 February 1978

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Hospital Practice

Vol. 13 (2) , 87-95
https://doi.org/10.1080/21548331.1978.11707279

Abstract

The widespread belief that problems such as lifelong obesity originate in infancy sometimes leads to overzealous attempts to regulate energy intake too soon and may compromise linear growth. Treatment of obesity should wait until after age one.

Keywords

OBESITY
TREATMENT
ATTEMPTS
INFANCY
WAIT
LIFELONG
BELIEF
OVERZEALOUS
COMPROMISE
TERM ROLE

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