Breast milk boosts IQ


	Breast milk boosts IQ

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5-6-2008 11:11 AM

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Breast-fed babies grow into more intelligent children, with IQs up to eight points higher than those who are bottle-fed, scientists claim.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/healthmain.html?in_article_id=564172&in_page_id=1774">A study showed long-term breastfeeding aids brain development in addition to its already recognised advantages such as resistance to infections, allergies and asthma.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/healthmain.html?in_article_id=564172&in_page_id=1774"><DIV id="ArtContentImgBodyR"> 
<IMG width="228" height="353" border="1" alt="Mother breast-feeding a baby" src="http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/05_01/BreastFeedREX_228x353.jpg" /><P>Brain boost: A breast-fed baby is likely to be more intelligent than those fed with formula</P></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/healthmain.html?in_article_id=564172&in_page_id=1774"><P>Researchers studied 14,000 children for more than six years and found those who were breast-fed did significantly better in IQ tests. 
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</P><P>At six-and-a-half, exclusively breast-fed children scored 5.9 points higher on average in tests of overall intelligence.
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</P><P>They also scored 7.5 points higher in tests of verbal intelligence and 2.9 points in non-verbal intelligence tests.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E8A2286D-C597-4DD4-BCD0-0EF950BD8050/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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