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...million Number of children under 5 who are underweight for their age in the developing world 78 million Number of underweight children in South Asia, with India accounting for 57 million...
Lost in all the ideological to-and-fro was any sense of what exactly the CDC study found and what it actually means. Basically, its authors concluded from three recent health surveys of the U.S. population that being obese--as well as being underweight--is associated with a greater number of deaths than being of normal weight. Researchers will argue about just how much the results are skewed by thin people who are losing weight because they are dying, but the basic findings are undisputed...
...A.A.P. advise that. We use the phrase "sleeping in proximity to," not "in the same bed with," your baby. We advise that so the mother can respond promptly to an infant's hunger. You also incorrectly implied that the A.A.P. supports the use of "a formula supplement ... for underweight babies." No such recommendation is contained in the policy statement...
...parent rolling over and smothering a small child. (We've ordered a bassinet that attaches to the bed.) The A.A.P. suggests feeding babies only breast milk for the first six months and including it in the diet for another six after that. (A formula supplement is still recommended for underweight babies...
...startling report in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggested that expectant moms who get dental X rays may be at risk for having underweight babies. Researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle found that among the women they studied, those who had babies weighing less than 51/2 lbs. were twice as likely to have had dental X rays. Researchers were quick to say they didn't know how radiation might affect pregnancy or whether the babies' low birth weight was due to X-ray exposure alone. Whatever the risk, say the study's authors, it's small...