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December 21, 2010

Breastfed baby boys may do better in school later | Reuters

Breastfed baby boys may do better in school later | Reuters
School-age boys who were breastfed for at least the first six months of life may outperform their peers in reading, writing and arithmetic, a new study suggests.

The research, which followed more than 1,000 Australian children, found that 10-year-old boys who had been predominantly breastfed until at least the age of 6 months did somewhat better on a set of academic tests.

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