>< LONDON (Reuters) - Breastfeeding is the best nutrition for babies and helps
>> to reduce the risk of childhood infections, but scientists said on Friday it
>> might actually increase the risk of asthma and allergies.
>

How big was this study? Seems to me you would need an *enormous* sized
sample
in order to eliminate all the other confounding factors and be able to say
anything statistically significant about breastfeeding and asthma. I'll
bet the sample wasn't big enough to say that, just big enough to get on
the
six o'clock news.
  Naomi Bar-Yam

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