TY - JOUR T1 - Infant feeding and overweight in two Oxfordshire towns JF - The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners JO - J R Coll Gen Pract SP - 427 LP - 430 VL - 29 IS - 204 AU - Margaret Thorogood AU - Rosemary Clark AU - P. Harker AU - J. I. Mann Y1 - 1979/07/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/29/204/427.abstract N2 - In a study of feeding and growth in the first year of life in two Oxfordshire market towns, the frequency of overweight babies was the same for the 'intervention' town (where a research health visitor gave intensive advice to mothers on feeding) as for the control town. Eighteen per cent of bottle-fed infants and three per cent of those breast fed were overweight at one year. It seems that an increase in the number of health visitors does not affect the frequency of overweight infants, but it may be that a greater emphasis on breast feeding might reduce the frequency. ER -