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A new study finds a sharp increase in the number of fat babies; the trend that the researchers feel could have a worrisome implication for the nation’s obesity epidemic//.

Researchers from the Harvard Medical School, who had published their findings of the study in the July issue of Obesity, have shown a 73.5% increase in fat babies over a period of 22-year. Researchers have said that infants now are 59% more likely to be overweight than what they were two decades ago.

Dr. Matthew Gillman, senior author and associate professor of ambulatory care and prevention at Harvard, said, “Even our very youngest children are gaining excess weight, not just adults and adolescents.” Explaining that there were several factors that probably play a key role, he said that right now there are more babies who are large for their gestational age at birth than a quarter-century ago, and this was mainly because the mothers to be were entering pregnancy overweight and subsequently developing gestational diabetes when they are pregnant. What these numbers and study suggests, Dr Gillman said was that, “Our obesity prevention efforts need to start at the earliest stages of human development.”

Researchers explained that they had collected data from visiting more than 120,000 children under the age of six between the years 1980 and 2001. They reported that all the children were from Massachusetts and had enrolled in a health maintenance organization, which provided the medical records that contained the necessary demographic and growth information.

They stated that they were shocked at the results of the study for the youngest age group, which were the infants from birth to six months of age. The researchers found that as they were continuing with the study they found that the number of overweight infants increased by 74%. They also found that the infants also experienced a 59% leap in the risk of becoming overweight, which was the biggest increa
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