{"id":1256,"date":"2012-10-07T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/?p=1256"},"modified":"2012-10-07T12:09:44","modified_gmt":"2012-10-07T19:09:44","slug":"do-antibiotics-lead-to-childhood-obesity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/do-antibiotics-lead-to-childhood-obesity","title":{"rendered":"Do Antibiotics Lead to Childhood Obesity?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Is childhood obesity related to antibiotic use in infancy?<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n

Yes – It might be one of the factors!
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No one likes a sick infant…<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

BUT<\/strong> – I have heard parents [and adults] say they are going to request antibiotics for what are common colds and viruses.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Antibiotics work only on bacterial infections!<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n

And I once heard a pediatrician say that – yes – he gave parents of young children prescriptions for antibiotics because they insisted and it was easier to give that out than to keep explaining it would not work.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Our overuse of antibiotics in people and in the animals we eat has been causing problems with development…<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n

And because that overuse has led to bigger and better bacteria, we keep designing bigger and better antibiotics and, and, and –  the cycle continues.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Now this!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Researchers from New York University studied more than 10,000 children and found that those given antibiotics before six months<\/a> of age on average weighed more for their height than children who weren't given antibiotics.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Please! Parents and pediatricians [and meat growers] we do not need so much of this in our bodies!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is childhood obesity related to antibiotic use in infancy? Yes – It might be one of the factors! No one likes a sick infant… BUT – I have heard parents [and adults] say they are going to request antibiotics for what are common colds and viruses. Antibiotics work only on bacterial infections! And I once […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[283],"tags":[523,259,385,480],"class_list":["post-1256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-child-development","tag-antibiotics","tag-childhood-obesity","tag-human-interest","tag-parenting","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}