Milk bottles and Overweight Children

Children who drank from a bottle of milk up to 2 years are at risk of overweight 30 percent higher by age 5 than children who drank from a glass.

Use a bottle of milk to encourage consumption of excess calories. Therefore, since the six-month-old child need to be introduced to drink from the glass and the use of milk bottles suspended from a child 1 year.

The study, published in the Journal of Pediatrics that analyzes the 7000 children across the United States. Rachel Gooze, one researcher from the Center for Obesity Research and Education, Temple University, Philadelphia, told the BBC on Thursday (05/05/2011), 2-year-old girl with balanced weight and height using milk bottle with a capacity of 8 ounces (about 250 grams) would receive the excess calories to 12 percent of that required in a single day. Source: health.kompas.com