Breast continues to be best

From the University of Bristol. UK. breastfed kids climb higher up the social ladder than bottle-fed children, reveals a large, long term study by Dr Richard Martin. Over 3,000 children from 16 rural and urban areas across England and Scotland were monitored from birth. The prevalence of breastfeeding varied from 45 per cent to 85 per cent, but was not dependent on household income, expenditure on food, number of siblings, birth order, or social class in childhood. But those who had been breastfed as babies were 41 per cent more likely to move up the social ladder as adults than those who had been bottle fed. The longer a child was breastfed, the greater were their chances of upward mobility, the results showed.