Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Breastfeeding makes children smarter: it improves the brain

Now there are no more doubts: breast-feeding is preferred over anything. For some time the experts have focused on this particular moment in the life of a human being, disclosing beneficial effects on health and the future intellectual development. Were we to conclude that breast milk transmits flavors for children, but now we have gone a little further: not only affects the taste, but also the development of the brain by helping the child to have a very high IQ.

Are you still wondering if breastfeeding is the right choice? To a report in a study conducted by researchers at Oxford University and the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), Essex, England, breast milk also contribute substantially to the development of high intellectual ability.

A positive effect has been verified by involving a thousand children, whose intelligence was sensitive to the fact that they were breastfed, with improvements intellectually at least up to secondary school. "We would not be surprised to see that the effect decreased with time, but did not do it," said Dr Maria Iacovou, coodinatrice research.

In fact, the IQ of children who breastfeed was higher on average from 3 to 5 points compared to those who had been bottle-fed. If you already know that children are better at school through breast milk, now we have a clear confirmation that their brain develops in a more consistent and faster than those who, instead, is fed with formula milk.

Why does this happen? The eserti There are two answers: the first says that all this is made possible by the long-chain fatty acids in milk, which helps develop the brain in the best way, while the latter adheres to a strict mother-child bond that is created. If previous studies had focused mostly on the physical benefits of breastfeeding for the baby, now it was possible to discover that the intellectual capacities leaving much improved.

Moreover, it was also shown that breastfeeding is good for women affected by cancer because it will avoid the risk of relapse. There are also situations where you can not breastfeed, and then there is nothing to say. More than anything, the experts agree to dispel the false mode of not wanting to breast-feed for a mere whim: in this case, you should think about the health of small and also that of the mother, so ...

away any injury and attacked the baby to the breast!

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