Missed cues may lead to overfed babies

Does this mean that fat infants, fat kids, fat adolescents, fat teenagers and fat adults are not fat from genetics, infections, hormones, ethnicity, culture or environment?

"Some mothers may end up overfeeding their infants because they fail to notice signs that the baby is full, a new study suggests.

The study, of 96 low-income mothers who had chosen to bottle-feed, found that when a woman tended to miss her baby's fullness signals, the infant was more likely to gain weight rapidly over the first year of life.

The findings suggest that parents' sensitivity to their formula-fed baby's cues play an important role in the risk of excessive weight gain, the researchers report in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior...

While a chubby baby will not necessarily become an overweight child, the researchers note, some studies have found rapid weight gain early in life may predispose children to becoming overweight later on."

Yep.