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Breastfeeding and less healthy beverage intake during the first year of life.
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Pediatric Obesity . Jan2024, Vol. 19 Issue 1, p1-10. 10p. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- Background and Objectives: Breastfeeding during infancy is associated with healthier beverage consumption later in childhood, but little is known about this relation during infancy. This was a longitudinal study of breastfeeding and less healthy beverage consumption during the first year of life, in a birth cohort study conducted 2013–2018 in the Southeastern United States (n = 666). Methods: We estimated monthly rates of 100% juice and sugar‐sweetened beverage (SSB) consumption comparing infants who were exclusively or partially breastfed, versus those who were not, in multivariable adjusted models. Results: Mothers had a median age of 26.5 years, 71% identified as Black/African‐American, and 61% reported household incomes <$20 000/year. The prevalence of any breastfeeding during the first month was 78.2% and 18.7% at month 12. By age 12 months, infants consumed juice a mean (SD) 9.1 (10.1) times per week and SSBs 3.6 (9.5) times per week. Breastfed infants had a 38% lower incidence rate of weekly juice consumption (95% CI 52%, 15%, p = 0.003) and a 57% lower incidence rate of weekly SSB consumption (95% CI 76%, 22%, p = 0.006), compared with infants who were not breastfed. Conclusions: Research on early‐life correlates of dietary health should focus on the earliest beverages, given evidence that consumption of obesogenic beverages may begin prior to age 1 year. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *RESEARCH
*BEVERAGES
*FRUIT juices
*DRINKING (Physiology)
*MULTIVARIATE analysis
*DISEASE incidence
*COMPARATIVE studies
*INFANT nutrition
*BREASTFEEDING
*CHILDREN'S health
*DISEASE prevalence
*SOCIAL classes
*DESCRIPTIVE statistics
*RESEARCH funding
*NATURAL foods
*STATISTICAL correlation
*LONGITUDINAL method
*CHILDREN
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20476302
- Volume :
- 19
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Pediatric Obesity
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 174030605
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/ijpo.13086