Writing in the report, published in the Journal of Pediatrics, the researchers said that they had also included other factors, such as mother's weight, the child's birth weight and feeding practices during infancy, in their study.
"This is a practice that has been discouraged for years because it promotes tooth decay, and this is one of the first studies to show that it may also promote obesity", the co-author of the study, Robert Whitaker said.
Source: Medindia