Breastfeeding and an overweight child: A linkage.

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Assunção ML, Ferreira HS, Coutinho SB, Santos LM, Horta BL. (Postgraduate Programme in Nutrition, Faculty of Nutrition, Federal University of Alagoas, Maceió, Alagoas; Postgraduate Programme in Child and Adolescent Health, Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco; Department of Public Health, University of Brasília, Brasília, Federal District; Postgraduate Programme in Epidemiology, Federal University of Pelotas, Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.) Protective effect of breastfeeding against overweight can be detected as early as the second year of life A study of children from one of the most sociallydeprived areas of Brazil. J Health Popul Nutr 2015;3385–91.