Anti-obesity infant formula

[AB Asks]

Scientists are working on developing an infant formula that will prevent babies from growing up fat. The research aims to supplement baby milk with a hormone that suppresses the appetite. What do you think? Would you feed your baby a formula laden with hormones? Could this formula be fed to babies to spare parents the bother of teaching their children about living a healthy lifestyle?

[B00]

What a horrific idea! Doesn't baby milk have enough crap in it without adding more?

I really don't see how this milk can help a would be overweight child anyway? If a parent feeds that child junk food from toddler stage onwards how on earth is the milk supposed to be of help?

Ridiculous!

[Figi]

Appalling idea. The best thing would be if every mother breast-fed her children so they didn't get any of that artificial formula stuff anyway.

[boobesque]

Thank god i breastfeed!

As Boo says, its not when they are babies that obesity starts (even though my friend was told her 17lb 7 month old was obese!) its when they are older and the parents feed them all manner of crap!

[jollygreen]

I think its an appalling idea too. However please can you all consider that not every mother is able to breastfeed. Formula milk is pretty good stuff. Both my husband (6ft 5 and extremely healthy!) and I were formula fed and it did us no harm at all. mrs jg