Breastfeeding duration and weaning diet may shape child's body composition

Thursday, May 28, 2009 - 07:49 in Health & Medicine

Variations in both milk feeding and in the weaning diet are linked to differences in growth and development, and they have independent influences on body composition in early childhood, according to a new study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM).

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