Headline Reuters: First Week Critical in Childhood Obesity – U.S. Study

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – What you feed a newborn baby during the first week of life could be critical in deciding whether that baby grows up to be obese, U.S. researchers said on Monday.

They found that formula-fed babies who gained weight rapidly during their first week of life were significantly more likely to be overweight decades later.

I think you’d have to feed a baby a LOT of calories during that first week for those calories to make the baby obese for life.

But at least now I’ve got a ready made excuse: “Hey, I’m not fat because I eat half a gallon of ice cream every night. It’s because Mom fed me too much in my first week, and I’ve never been able to get back down to my birth weight.”