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Friday, July 16, 1999 Published at 08:59 GMT 09:59 UK

A huge survey has found striking evidence that mothers who feed their
babies by breast end up with far fewer overweight and obese children.

The study, published in the British Medical Journal, found that 4.5% of
bottle-fed babies were obese by the time they reached five or
six-years-old.

But only 2.8% of babies given only breast milk after birth were obese
when they reached school age.
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Researchers looked at 9,357 overweight or obese children from the German
region of Bavaria ....
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Compared with the 4.5% obesity rate of those children who had never been
breast fed...
less than one per cent of those breast fed for more than a year became
obese.
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Research found that bottle-fed children had far higher blood
concentrations of insulin, the chemical that stimulates the laying down
of fat cells.
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Other research has shown that breast feeding for the first 15 weeks
protects against both diarrhoeal and respiratory diseases, ear and
urinary tract infections and reduces blood pressure.