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Current label laws fail to give parents and guardians enough details on various food labels. Because of this, parents are confused, and they are likely to add to the widespread drinking of sweetened beverages by young children.
Such data were based on the new paper from experts at the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at the University of Connecticut and School of Global Public Health at New York University.
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Parents are confused
The study found out that food labels of the most famous sweetened beverages for kids make parents confused. They can t spot the key ingredients, added sugars, diet sweeteners, and juice percentage in these drinks.
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In Australia, experts can now predict if a newborn baby is at risk of childhood obesity by 8 to 9 years old.
Experts from the University of Queensland designed and validated the i-PATHWAY model. It uses simple risk factors that researchers mainly gathered during routine doctor visits at 12 months of age to predict future childhood obesity.
Dr. Oliver Canfell, a research fellow and an expert on diet and nutrition, said that the said model could measure the risk of childhood obesity with 74.6% accuracy.
The risk factors used are the newborn baby s weight change in their first year, mother s height and weight before pregnancy, father s height and weight, and the newborn baby s sleep pattern in the first year. Premature birth, if the mother smoked during her pregnancy and if the baby is female, was also used.