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Monday, April 03, 2006

Breastfeeding Benefit Debunked, Still Praised

This is just a quick plug for an interesting piece that ran in Slate recently about the science surrounding the whole question of breastfeeding and antibodies. As it turns out, breast milk doesn't really help in any way more elaborate than to protct babies' gastrointestinal tracts. This is not to say that breastfeeding isn't great and a good thing to do, it's just to say that if you can't or don't want to, this is something you probably don't have to feel guilty about. It isn't new science. It's just old data explained well.

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