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- Title
Breastfeeding and less healthy beverage intake during the first year of life.
- Authors
Zaltz, Daniel A.; Mueller, Noel T.; Hoyo, Cathrine; Østbye, Truls; Benjamin‐Neelon, Sara E.
- Abstract
Background and Objectives: Breastfeeding during infancy is associated with healthier beverage consumption later in childhood, but little is known about this relation during infancy. This was a longitudinal study of breastfeeding and less healthy beverage consumption during the first year of life, in a birth cohort study conducted 2013–2018 in the Southeastern United States (n = 666). Methods: We estimated monthly rates of 100% juice and sugar‐sweetened beverage (SSB) consumption comparing infants who were exclusively or partially breastfed, versus those who were not, in multivariable adjusted models. Results: Mothers had a median age of 26.5 years, 71% identified as Black/African‐American, and 61% reported household incomes <$20 000/year. The prevalence of any breastfeeding during the first month was 78.2% and 18.7% at month 12. By age 12 months, infants consumed juice a mean (SD) 9.1 (10.1) times per week and SSBs 3.6 (9.5) times per week. Breastfed infants had a 38% lower incidence rate of weekly juice consumption (95% CI 52%, 15%, p = 0.003) and a 57% lower incidence rate of weekly SSB consumption (95% CI 76%, 22%, p = 0.006), compared with infants who were not breastfed. Conclusions: Research on early‐life correlates of dietary health should focus on the earliest beverages, given evidence that consumption of obesogenic beverages may begin prior to age 1 year.
- Subjects
SOUTHERN States; RESEARCH; BEVERAGES; FRUIT juices; DRINKING (Physiology); MULTIVARIATE analysis; DISEASE incidence; COMPARATIVE studies; INFANT nutrition; BREASTFEEDING; CHILDREN'S health; DISEASE prevalence; SOCIAL classes; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; RESEARCH funding; NATURAL foods; STATISTICAL correlation; LONGITUDINAL method; CHILDREN
- Publication
Pediatric Obesity, 2024, Vol 19, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2047-6302
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/ijpo.13086