Childhood obesity is on the rising, partly due to increase our our socioeconomic status. More and more parents resort to much easy option to bottle feed their youngs instead of traditional breast feed. With bottle feed parents tend to overfeed their children. The calorie content is also higher. With extra money in the pocket feeding children with easy to get high sugar content junkfoods. Society wrong perception on how the baby should look like ..... chubby means cute ... may also contribute to this increasing medical concern. A recent report qouted as high as 40 percent of paediatric age group in Malaysia considered obese. Data collected in western shows alarming risk of getting chronic medical condition such as young hypertension, diabetes and other diseseases when they reached young adulthood.
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