Breast-Feeding Better for Baby and Mother Than Bottle Formula; May Prevent Cancer, Increase IQ

Benefits for Breast-Fed Babies


Whether to breast-feed or go the bottle route has long been one of a mother’s crucial choices in raising her newborn child. Both options seemed equally healthy – until now. A flurry of new scientific evidence supports the idea that breast-feeding babies better protects them against acute infectious diseases like respiratory and gastrointestinal infections, as well as sudden infant death syndrome. It is highly likely that breast-feeding your baby better equips his or her immune system to fight off colds, flu, diarrhea, ear infections, meningitis, pneumonia, bowel infections, Crohn’s, juvenile diabetes, and, perhaps one of the most problematic issues in America today, obesity.





The American Academy of Pediatrics has found that breast-feeding may even help protect children against diseases that have their onset years later, such as leukemia, asthma, diabetes, and several forms of lymphoma. The results of a recent study involving premature babies indicate that breast-feeding as compared to bottle-feeding increases a child’s I.Q. score, presumably as a result of fatty acids that help the brain develop.