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There are a lot of  benefits to breastfeeding, and  the one above is one of the more reasons why a mother’s milk is truly good for the baby.

Research conducted on kids exclusively breastfed for at least 6 months show high IQs.  Brain development here May be directly related to the emotional bonding during breastfeeding or the fatty acids in mothers milk.

The  McGill study links breastfeeding to increased intelligence, and this is  what  they reported  “The children’s cognitive ability was assessed by IQ tests administered by the children’s pediatricians and by their teachers’ ratings of their academic performance in reading, writing, mathematics and other subjects. Both sets of measures were significantly higher in the group randomized to the breastfeeding promotion intervention.

“The effect of breastfeeding on brain development and intelligence has long been a popular and hotly debated topic,” says Dr. Kramer. “While most studies have been based on association, however, we can now make a causal inference between breastfeeding and intelligence – because of the randomized design of our study.”

for more on this study go to :

http://esciencenews.com/articles/2008/05/05/mcgill.study.links.breastfeeding.increased.intelligence

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