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Independent Nurse: Old weight charts fuel child obesity crisis.(Brief article)
Out-of-date weight charts mean health visitors could be unwittingly promoting obesity in infants by pressuring mothers to overfeed their babies according to new research.
The most popular charts used were produced by the US National Centre for Health Statistics in 1977 and are based on babies being fed high-protein formula milk.
A European research team investigating infant nutrition and obesity, monitored 1,000 infants in five European countries who received breast milk, high-protein or low-protein formula milk until …
