Breast-feeding makes children significantly smarter and helps to improve reading and writing, according to the biggest study of its kind. Researchers looked at almost 14,000 children over a period of more than six years and found that those who had been breast-fed performed far better in IQ tests. At the age of six-and-a-half, children who had been exclusively breast-fed in infancy scored 5.9 points higher on average in tests of overall intelligence. Teachers also rated these children significantly higher academically than control children in reading and writing. Previous studies suggested a...
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