The evidence that breast feeding protects against obesity is inconclusive: some studies show a protective effect 1 and others find no effect. 2 3 Confounding factors may account for these inconsistencies. We used data from the offspring of the 1958 British birth cohort to assess whether breast feeding influences body mass index and obesity in childhood.
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L Li (2003) studied this question.