PEDIATRICS Vol. 61 No. 3 March 1978, pp. 360-364
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An Attempt at Prevention of Obesity in Infancy

John C. Pisacano M.D.1, Henry Lichter M.D.1, Jeffrey Ritter B.S.1, and Alan P. Siegal B.S.1

1 Long Beach, New York

A study of The Prudent Diet in early infancy was undertaken in a test group of 80 infants as an attempt to prevent overweight in a private practice setting. This group was compared with another group of 50 infants born in 1964 who were fed the standard infant diet then in use. Although an incidence of 34.1% overweight was present in the comparison group as compared with 25% in the diet group at age 3 months, by age 3 years the comparison group still showed a 25.5% prevalence of overweight as compared with the study group with a significantly lower incidence of only 1.28%. These results require confirmation from other investigators, as well as long-term follow-up observation of patients before one could consider recommending such a diet for widespread use.

Submitted on February 2, 1977
Accepted on December 5, 1977




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