Future obesity set by age 3 months?Future obesity set by age 3 months? Infants who become overweight by the age of 1 year have total body energy expenditures about 21 percent lower than infants who do not become overweight, and this slower metabolism appears by the age of 3 months, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a study reported in the Feb. 25 NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE The New England Journal of Medicine (New Engl J Med or NEJM) is an English-language peer-reviewed medical journal published by the Massachusetts Medical Society. It is one of the most popular and widely-read peer-reviewed general medical journals in the world. by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Sloan School of Management has notable programs in business, in Cambridge and the Dunn Nutrition Unit in Cambridge, England. In preventing obesity in infants of overweight mothers, an increase in physical activity might be more useful than reducing food intake, say the researchers. An accompanying report from the National Institutes of Health facility in Phoenix, Ariz., agrees that a person's inherited inherited received by inheritance. inherited achondroplastic dwarfism see achondroplastic dwarfism. inherited combined immunodeficiency see combined immune deficiency syndrome (disease). energy expenditure can contribute to obesity. Results from that study of Pima Indians were presented last fall at a seminar in Bethesda, Md. (SN: 11/14/87, p.309). |
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