Turns out warding off childhood obesity is as easy as feeding babies breast milk. According to a recent study from the Ewha Womans University College of Medicine in Seoul breastfeeding may protect high-birth weight infants from having overweight or obesity as children. High birth weight is associated with overweight or obesity during early childhood. Among high-birth weight infants exclusive breastfeeding is a significant protective factor against overweight and obesity said lead author Hae Soon Kim. High-birth weight infants were highly likely to meet the criteria for obesity or overweight through 6 years of age compared with normal birth weight infants. But the