I'm interested in knowing if there has ever been a study done looking at
the long term correlation between breastfeeding and obesity.  I've been
cruising the archives for a while, but haven't found any reference to
anything other than the study looking at Brazilian teens, and the well-
known studies looking at obesity correlation in children.

It seems like it would be pretty easy to do a study looking at adults in
the US and compare BMI to just a yes/no if they were ever breastfed.  I
know it would be a very course study - the issues of whether BMI actually
represents obesity level (my vote is no) and no consideration of BF
duration, but I still think it would be an interesting place to start.  And
I know that statistics often get people's attention when facts and opinions
don't.

In walking around my predominantly poor, white neighborhood, I see so much
obesity, and in seeing the world through lactation-glasses, I find myself
saying "I'll be she wasn't breastfed...".  I think it would be amazing to
see parallel lines on a graph showing the rates of obesity going up in
exact tandem with the rates of breastfeeding going down (which is a
slightly different issue - maybe this could be charted w/ existing data
from CDC?).  Anyone know if something like this has been done?

Thanks so much,
Kirsten Berggren, PhD and aspiring ICBLC

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