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Our obsession with infant growth charts may be fuelling childhood obesity

  • Written by Rebecca Byrne, Dietitan and Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
imageNumbers on the scale have become a defining measure of an infant’s progress.Unsplash/Kelly Sikkema

Ask any new parent how their baby is going and you will most likely get an update on recent weight gains.

Regular baby weigh-ins are a rite of passage, but many parents look back at this time with a deep sense of failure; when told their child...

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