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Transcript by www.newsy.com BY SAMANTHA MCCLENDON ANCHOR JENNIFER MECKLES You're watching multisource health video news analysis from Newsy. Parents- if you want to reduce your little one's chances of becoming obese by Kindergarten, ditch the bottle. That's according to researchers at Temple University. …but the anchors at ABC-affiliate WHAM say it can be hard for parents to say bye-bye to the bottle. PATRICE WALSH "Now Dr. Lewis says the worst things parents can do is use the food or a bottle as a reward or as way to quiet kids down. He says that's not the answer. Waiting too long to wean them is hard because then the bottle becomes like a security blanket. Of course we never did these things wrong with our children did we?" GUBBY RYAN: "It's harder for the parents than the baby. We want it for our own care and comfort." The Temple University study reveals an average toddler going to bed with an 8-ounce bottle of whole milk will get about 12 percent of his daily caloric needs. CBS News responds… "That's a lot of calories for a bedtime snack… Letting a toddler continue to drink from a baby bottle may be a big fat mistake…[It's] obesity in a bottle." But according to Families.com– the study was missing some data. "The researchers acknowledge a number of other things that were missing. They didn't have data on children's physical activity…or specific aspects of diet — like total daily calories, sugar-sweetened beverages in the diet, or information on whether or <b>…</b>
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