RT Journal
A1 Whitaker RC, Wright JA
T1 WHy feed breast milk from a bottle?
JF Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
JO Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
YR 2012
FD May 1
VO 166
IS 5
SP 483
OP 484
DO 10.1001/archpediatrics.2012.275
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpediatrics.2012.275
AB 
Because of the childhood obesity epidemic, pediatricians are paying more attention to how and how much infants are fed and not just what they are fed. These concerns are based on research linking infant weight and weight gain to later obesity.1 Although it is clear that breastfed and formula-fed infants have different patterns of growth,2 it is less clear that these differences in infant feeding affect the risk of childhood obesity.3- 4 One hypothesized mechanism by which breastfeeding might protect against obesity is that feeding from the breast prevents overfeeding (feeding the infant beyond satiety), suggesting that breastfeeding, rather than breast milk, protects against later obesity.