Daily Milk Cereal Drinks Increases Obesity Risk Later in Childhood

In five-year-old children, the risk for being overweight is almost twice as high if they at 12 months had consumed milk cereal drinks every day, a study in the journal Acta Paediatrica shows. “Milk cereal drinks are not bad as such; how it’s used is the problem. That is, when it’s seen not as a meal but as an extra, to supplement other food,” says Bernt Alm. Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg. The researchers behind the study have previously linked consumption of milk cereal drinks at age six months to high body mass index (BMI) at ages one year and one and a half years. The study now presented is of the same group of children, several years later. https://www.technologynetworks.com/applied-sciences/news/daily-milk-cereal-drinks-increases-obesity-risk-later-in-childhood-313268?utm_campaign=Newsletter_TN_BreakingScienceNews&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=68506561&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--IbSohAVe3Y6eAb0V4C4nLMbO2hAovnSJQ69J_9eu8sktu4G9ZDT9qtKj5V4t95LrwRduBvukF-PXRvGsThIXEMk9hEg&_hsmi=68506561