Prolonged bottle-feeding tied to kids' obesity

Two-year-olds who are still using bottles are more likely to be obese by kindergarten, a new study finds.

Researchers who studied 6,750 U.S. children found that toddlers who were still drinking from bottles at age 2 were one-third more likely than other kids to be obese at the age of 5.

The researchers do not know whether long-term bottle-feeding is directly to blame.

But they say their findings raise the possibility that weaning babies from the bottle around their first birthday could help prevent excessive weight gain.

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