While breast-feeding has many benefits, it won’t prevent a child from becoming fat as an adult, says a new study that challenges dogma from U.S. health officials. The research is the largest study to ...

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Babies who are breast-fed are less likely to become severely overweight as they grow through childhood, according to a major study released yesterday. The study of more than 15,000 pre-adolescents ...

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March 3, 2011 — Breast-feeding may protect babies who were prenatally exposed to diabetes against childhood obesity, according to the results of a retrospective cohort study reported in the March ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - 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 ...

"She just said her son wasn't going there again and blocked me," the confused parent shared. "As far as I know, her son does not have any health issues." A confused mother has taken to the internet ...

One of the arguments made in favor of breast-feeding is that breast-fed babies are less likely to grow up into obese adults than babies who are formula-fed. But a new study says that's not the case.