by Cathy Strahl
Do you have a young child whose weight or eating habits are out of control? Need some real world help with ‘taming the cookie monster’? Here are some things that worked for our family.
Our daughter, now 14 years old, was plump from birth and thrived happily for her first year on a combination [...]
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With obesity on the rise in America, including higher numbers of childhood obesity, one way to lower the risk of it in babies is found at home.
Breastfeeding, has long been considered the healthiest option for babies, and has been recently found to reduce the odds of children growing up obese.
While chubby babies are cute a [...]
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Do you think that breastfeeding helps raise the occurrence of obesity or lower it? According to the American Academy of Pediatrics breastfeeding actually lowers the risk that your baby will grow into an obese child or obese adult. One of the reasons pediatricians are now recommending that mothers breastfeed for at least the first year [...]
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