Babies Motor Better with Breast Milk

http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20061007/food.asp

Physicians have been advocating for years that breast milk is the best food
for infants. Not only does it have the nutrition that babies need, but it
also provides some antibodies and growth factors that speed maturation of
the infant gut, thereby fending off disease. Now, a team of scientists in
Britain offers strong evidence of another benefit. Mother's milk boosts
early neurological development.

Social epidemiologist Yvonne J. Kelly of University College London and her
colleagues were aware of studies that had suggested neurological benefits
from breastfeeding. However, notes Kelly, those earlier analyses tended to
be small and done in special populations-such as preemies. They also failed
to rule out many factors that might account for differences in a child's
developmental skills. Among such possible confounders: race, parent's
education, family income, parenting attitudes, depression in the mother,
characteristics of childcare, or the baby's overall health.

(see link for full article)

Janice Reynolds

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