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Thursday 14 March 2013

Childhood Obesity Risk May Not be Reduced by Breastfeeding

A new study published in the journal of the American Medical Association contradicts the common assumption that breastfeeding reduces the risk of obesity. The study involved 17,046 mothers and their infants. They were randomly divided into two groups and one group was introduced to interventional program promoting breastfeeding. Richard M. Martin, Ph.D., from the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom, and his colleagues noticed that 43% of the mothers ...


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