Breast milk content may affect child's obesity risk.
Mothers who breast feed and have high levels of a protein secreted by lipids in their milk may be increasing the risk that their child will be overweight, German researchers report.
But breast feeding also increases IQ by 6 to 7 points. However, not all breastfed children show this higher IQ score ... they have to have a certain version of a gene called FADS2 ... and 6-7 IQ points doth not an Einstein make.
So breast fed babies are perhaps a bit fatter and perhaps a bit brighter. But increasing the risk of being overweight ... Oh dear ... what a dilemma.
Monday, November 19, 2007
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My kids were breastfed, and they are bright, tall and slim.
Too intelligent to eat junk food.
Mine too, and good looking ... I must confess though that I also was and am now a little, just a little, rounded so perhaps it does catch up to you at some time a 'little further along the way.'
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