Breastfeeding means brighter kids

Breastfeeding during the first months of life appears to raise a child's verbal IQ, according to a study of nearly 13,889 children carried out in Belarus. Six-year-olds whose mothers had been part of an education program that encouraged them to breast-feed were found to have a verbal IQ that was 7.5 points higher than children in a control group. The experimental intervention led to a large increa ...

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