title: Energy intake in early infancy and childhood fatness.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate whether aspects of infant energy intake are related to fatness in early childhood.
  
  
  METHODS
  Longitudinal investigation of infants studied at 12 weeks and 2-3.5 y.
  
  
  METHODS
  20 healthy infants, breast-fed or formula-fed, from the general population.
  
  
  METHODS
  Milk volume intake (MVI) by deuterium turnover, estimated energy intake, weaning status and body composition in infancy, body composition in childhood.
  
  
  RESULTS
  MVI was not related to infant skinfolds or percentage fat. Weaning was inversely related to MVI (P < 0.04) at 12 weeks, and inversely related to skinfolds (P = 0.055) and fat mass (P = 0.020) in childhood. MVI and total energy intake were not related to childhood fatness.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Early weaning was associated with a moderate reduction in childhood fatness. Two possible mechanisms are discussed. However, early infant energy intake was not an important determinant of later fatness in this population.
authors.affiliation: Infant and Child Nutrition Group, Dunn Nutrition Unit, Cambridge, UK.
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Wells
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Stanley
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Laidlaw
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Day
authors.forename: P S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Davies
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging; D001823:Body Composition; D002675:Child, Preschool; D015331:Cohort Studies; D002149:Energy Intake; D004734:Energy Metabolism; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007225:Infant Food; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008895:Milk, Human; D012885:Skinfold Thickness; D014886:Weaning