breast feeding

By contrast, following grandmother’s golden rule of feeding babies only after every four hours can fuel the obesity epidemic in growing kids.

The study, carried out by researchers at the Queensland University Technology in Brisbane, Australia, found that babies are born with a sense of how much food they need and naturally stop eating when they are full.

The study found babies nurtured on breast milk are less prone to display behavior problems by the time they turn five than those who are reared on formula.

According to experts, moms who breastfeed their babies for just four months can cut the risk of their kids becoming badly behaved by almost a third.

However, a proper maternal diet during breastfeeding is also crucial because the detrimental health effects are passed on from mother to child.

According to researchers, breast feeding moms should avoid trans fats because apart from adding pounds on the women they can take a toll on the baby's weight as well.

Researchers found that infants whose mothers consumed more than 4.5g of trans fats daily while breastfeeding were twice as likely to have high percentages of body fat (adiposity) than those whose mothers consumed less than 4.5g.