Study links lack of sleep to weight gain in Babies

[MissMillie]

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89457935

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A new study found that infants and toddlers who slept less than 12 hours a day were more than twice as likely to be overweight by age 3, further evidence that how much we sleep affects how much we weigh.

Researchers from Harvard University interviewed moms and weighed 915 babies — beginning at birth and then again at 6 months and 3 years of age.

"Infants and toddlers who slept less than 12 hours a day were twice as likely to become overweight at age 3 than children who slept longer than that," says Pediatrician Elsie Taveras, who led the study.