Rice Cereal leads to childhood obesity doctors say
Rice Cereal filled with sugar, calories
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Posted: 01/31/2011
Growing concern from one doctor about what you feed your baby. He says white rice cereal, long recommended as a first solid food for babies, may lead to childhood obesity.
One doctor is calling it the tap root of the child obesity epidemic.
Doctor Alan Greene says that because white rice cereal is the number one source of calories from solid foods in a baby's first year he believes it conditions children to prefer sugary processed foods.
He wants parents to start their babies on pureed fruits and vegetables combined with a whole grain cereal.
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