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He added that parents should be encouraged to breastfeed rather than bottle-feed.

The team are also beginning a study to look at trying to avoid excessive calorie consumption in babies who are formula fed.

Dr Tabitha Randell, consultant paediatric endocrinologist at University Hospital Nottingham, said the big point was that heavier mothers had heavier children.

"Age at menarche is strongly related to your weight and it's well recognised that it's getting earlier and earlier." But she said that environmental factors were just as important as genetics.

"It would be very interesting to have a look at the effect of breastfeeding.

"It sets up feeding patterns. You lay down your number of fat cells in the first couple of years of life," she said.

The findings could help identify children at risk of weight problems early on, a report in the Public Library of Science Medicine (PLOS) concludes.
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