Giving your kid unprescribed antibiotics? A new study has suggested that early antibiotic use can be a contributing factor to the childhood obesity epidemic. The study found that administration of three or more courses of antibiotics before children reach an age of 2 years is associated with an increased risk of early childhood obesity. Antibiotics have been used to promote weight gain in livestock for several decades and our research confirms that antibiotics have the same effect in humans said Researcher Frank Irving Scott adding that the results do not imply that antibiotics should not be used when necessary but
