Post Carbon Fellow Brian Schwartz was quoted in this article on CBS News about a new report linking over exposure to antibiotics with childhood obesity.

From the article:

For the study, Dr. Brian Schwartz, a professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the Bloomberg School, and his team analyzed the health records of more than 160,000 children between the ages of 3 and 18 from 2001 to 2012. They collected data on height and weight to determine body mass index (BMI), as well as antibiotic use in the previous year and any earlier years for which health records were available…

“Our models suggest that the effect likely continues into adulthood and the BMI trajectories of children who did and did not receive antibiotics are increasingly diverging at older ages,” Schwartz told CBS News. “Although we did not observe children past 18 years, I would bet that this kind of pattern would continue.”