Article review : Childhood Diet Habits Set in Infancy

The name of the article I choose is, Childhood Diet Habits Set in Infancy, Studies Suggest. This article is written by a news reporter named Catherine Saint Louis. Catherine wrote this article on September 02, 2014. This article was written for the health section in The New York Times. This article is about the eating habits of children at the age of six. Pediatrics indicate that early preferences for fruits and vegetables or salty foods and sugary drinks last into age 6. Catherine Saint Louis believes that a child starts to develops his/her eating habits as an infant and that breast feeding an infant can later have a positive effect on that child's preferred diet. A child who is breast-fed is most likely to consume water over sugary drinks. Catherine states, " it's not clear what impact breast-feeding might have on a child's later diet but that a mothers eating habits do reflect the taste of their milk, providing a "favor binge" that eases her baby's transitions to the foods she ate regularly while nursing." I choose this article because diabetes still remains the 7th leading cause of death in the United States. According to American Diabetes Association, about 208,000 Americans under age 20 are estimated to have diagnosed diabetes, approximately 0.25% of the population. In 2008-2009, the annual incidence of diagnosed diabetes in youth was estimated at 18,436 with type 1 diabetes, 5,089 with type 2 diabetes. Based on research by Centers For Disease Control Prevention Approximately 17% (or 12.7 million) of children and adolescents aged 2-19 years had obesity. That percentage has not shown any significant change since 2003-2004 . It's a parents job to mold their children into healthy living and if children don't learn to make beneficial diet choices they are prone to obesity and illnesses like Diabetes, Anemia. If a child develops bad eating habits and chooses sugary drinks and processed foods over fruit and vegetable they will remain with those habits