Protective Effect of Breastfeeding against Overweight Can Be Detected as Early as the Second Year of Life: A Study of Children from One of the Most Socially-deprived Areas of Brazil

Millions of children live in Brazil's semi-arid region, one of the most socially-deprived areas of the country, where undernutrition co-exists with obesity as a consequence of the nutrition transition. There is evidence that childhood obesity predisposes adult obesity and, thus, that obesity sh...

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Main Authors: Assunção, Monica L., Ferreira, Haroldo S., Coutinho, Sônia B., Santos, Leonor M.P., Horta, Bernardo L.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4438652/