PEDIATRICS Vol. 64 No. 4 October 1979, pp. 397-401
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The Effect of Feeding on Fat Deposition in Early Infancy

Ann G. Ferris PhD1, Virginia A. Beal MPH1, Mary Jane Laus MS1, and David W. Hosmer PhD1

1 Department of Food Science and Nutrition and Division of Public Health, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and the Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs

Trained nutritionists surveyed 92 female infants and their mothers in Western Massachusetts at monthly intervals from birth to age 6 months. A diet history, a three-day record of food intake and 11 anthropometric measurements were obtained at each home visit. Skinfold measurements showed an earlier plateau than in other published studies. There were no significant differences in fat thicknesses when infants were classified by method of feeding until age 2 months, but formula-fed infants with solids started before age 2 months had the largest mean skinfolds which peaked at age 3 months and then decreased and became similar to those of the other groups by age 5 months.

Submitted on August 28, 1978
Accepted on February 12, 1979




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