Parents making home-cooked meals often provide babies with too much fat and overall calories, while store-bought meals may not have enough of the fat children need to grow, according to a UK study. Meals made at home also tend to be cheaper for parents of young children and to offer a larger variety of vegetables, the researchers write in the Archives of Disease in Childhood. Because they are growing quickly, young children need more fat in their diets than adults, said lead author Sharon Carstairs, a public health researcher at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland Carstairs noted, though, that too much fat in the diet can also be an issue. "We don't wish for our young children to continue high-fat diets into their later childhood and adult life as this is linked to health problems," she said by e-mail. Past research has found that commercial baby foods provide about as much nutrition as breast milk, but they lack variety in the types of food they include, Carstairs and her colleagues write. The introduction of solid foods to infants at about six months of age is a critical time when babies will start to form food preferences and when they need the right amounts of energy and...
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