Antibiotics don't cause obesity
Date: | March 22, 2016 |
A new study in JAMA this week debunks the idea that antibiotic exposure early in life is linked to children's obesity later.
A previous report had reported a weak link between antibiotics and obesity. I doubted it at the time; see my blog post from 2012 here:
http://blog.delawaremodernpediatrics.com/obesity-from-antibiotics-i-doubt-it/
It's nice to know that I was right 4 years ago! But we still need to be cautious about the overuse of antibiotics in general.
-- David Epstein MD