Background. Excessive weight gain in infancy is the risk factor of future obesity. One of the reasons may be infant nutrition impairment. Our aim was to evaluate adherence to national infant nutritional advice in overweight infants comparatively to normal weight infants.
Methods. We conducted a questionnaire survey of 218 mothers who had one year old children. Depending on the Z-score weight-for-length (Anthro, 2005) infants were divided into 3 groups: group 1 - Z-score [-1,+1], n=136; group 2 - Z-score [+1,+2],  n=56; group 3 - Z-score [>+2], n=26. Results were analyzed by the SPSS 20. The differences were considered statistically significant at p<0.05.
Results. The infants in the 3rd group began to receive complementary foods about 2 weeks earlier and received more often than infants in 2 other groups juices (19.2%, 5.1%, 3.5% for the 3d, 1st and 2nd group, respectively) and less often - vegetable puree (38.4%, 55.8%, 64.2% for the 3d, 1st and 2nd group, respectively) as the first product of complementary foods (Fig. 1). 85% of children from the 3d group  vs. 65% and 69% in the 1st and the 2nd groups, respectively, were transferred to the regular diet up to a year (Fig. 2, A). 96% of children of the 3d group vs. 82% and 84% in the 1st and the 2nd groups began to receive salt (Fig. 2, B) and 81% of them vs.  66% and 75% in groups 1 and 2, respectively, - added sugar up to 24 months (Fig. 2, C).
Conclusions. Juices as the first complementary food, early introduction of sugar and salt in the diet and early transfer to the adult diet may enhance the risk of future obesity in infants.

INFANT NUTRITION AND RISK OF OVERWEIGHT AND OBESITY IN FUTURE