“It is well recognised that bottle-fed infants have an increased risk of subsequent obesity compared with those who were breastfed, and it has been proposed that bottle-feeding gives the parents more control and the infant less self-regulation, thereby potentially over-riding infant satiation cues.”
The study also noted that parents often changed the brand of formula they used because the baby regurgitated it.
However “it was possible that the reason for this symptom may not have been intolerance but overfeeding,” the researchers said..