Prolonged bottle-feeding linked to obesity in early childhood: Study

Researchers studied eating habits of nearly 7,000 US children

NEW YORK - Two-year-olds who are still using bottles are more likely to be obese by kindergarten, a US study said, raising the possibility that weaning babies from the bottle at an earlier age may help prevent excessive weight gain.

The study of nearly 7,000 US children, published in the Journal of Pediatrics, found that toddlers who still drank from bottles at age 2 were one-third more likely than other children to be obese at the age of 5.