If you think the foods your children eat as babies and toddlers won’t make much a difference later in life, you might be interested in this study published in Clinical Pediatrics.

It states that obesity may be determined in children before the age of two.

A study of more than 100 obese children and teenagers found more than half were overweight by 24 months and 90 percent were overweight by the age of five.

A quarter were overweight before they were five months old, the researchers reported.

They added that food preferences may be set by the age of two, so changing a child’s eating behavior at a later stage may be difficult.

Study leader Dr John Harrington, an assistant professor at Eastern Virginia Medical School, said in a BBC report, “This study indicates that we may need to discuss inappropriate weight gain early in infancy to effect meaningful changes in the current trend of obesity.”

Although none of my three kids are obese, there were plenty of poor food choices made by me when I had a screaming toddler and a crying baby. Often, a little bowl of Fruit Loops or a sip of Mommy’s soda solved everything.

Boy, am I glad now that it never became an everyday occurrence.