This is an interesting study because people now at that age who were born in
Britain were much less likely to have been breastfed - there was a big drop
in breastfeeding in thelate 30`s and wartime 40~s with the emergence of
formula and very early mixed feeding.
Wendy Blumfield
NCT BFC/
ANT Tutor
Israel Childbirth Education Centre
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Subject: BMJ: Breastfed kids climb higher up the social ladder than
bottle-fed children,
>
> EMBARGOED until 00:01 on 14/02/2007 UK Time. Headline : BMJ Specialist
> Journals press release
>
>
> [Breast feeding in infancy and social mobility: 60-year follow-up of Boyd
> Orr cohort Arch Dis Child 2007 doi: 10.1136/adc.2006.105494]
>
> Breastfed kids climb higher up the social ladder than bottle-fed children,
> reveals a large, long term study, published ahead of print in the Archives
> of Disease in Childhood.
>
> Over 3000 children from 16 rural and urban areas across England and
> Scotland
> were monitored from birth, as part of the Boyd Orr Study of Diet and
> Health
> in Pre-War Britain (1937-1939).
>
> The study results are based on 1414 people in their 60s and 70s, for whom
> information on breastfeeding in infancy and changes in social class was
> available.
>
> The prevalence of breastfeeding varied from 45% to 85%, but was not
> dependent on household income, expenditure on food, number of siblings,
> birth order, or social class in childhood.
>
> But those who had been breastfed as babies were 41% more likely to move up
> the social ladder as adults than those who had been bottle fed.
>
> The longer a child was breastfed, the greater were their chances of upward
> mobility, the results showed.
>
> The findings held true even after taking account of other factors likely
> to
> influence the results.
>
> The authors suggest that the findings might be explained by the potential
> benefits of breastfeeding confers on brain development, which might then
> lead to better exam and job prospects, and greater earning potential.
>
> But other as yet unknown social and economic factors associated with
> breastfeeding may explain the findings, they say.
> Breastfeeding may also improve long term health, which is associated
> socioeconomic factors.
>
> Contact:
> Dr Richard Martin, Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol,
> Bristol, UK
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> (0)117 928 7777
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> Click here to view the paper in full:
> http://press.psprings.co.uk/adc/february/ac105494.pdf
>
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