Since I have a post up on cognitive ability and how it seems fixed, I thought it would be a good idea to post this bit of advice.
There is now considerable evidence that breast-fed children have higher intelligence. For a long time it was impossible to be certain this was not merely because the more intelligent mothers (whose children received good genetic and environmental backgrounds) were those who could breast feed, or chose to do so. However, research by Lucas et al. (1992) with premature babies fed through a tube and the type of milk randomly selected has shown that those given human milk do indeed have a higher intelligence when tested as children. The effect was an amazing 10 IQ points.
Cross Posted at Power and Control and at The Astute Bloggers
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Too bad we don’t have a “breast of” category.
My mom breast fed me, but I’d never disclose that in a post, because it might be seen as shamelessly sharing personal secrets.
Surely, though, the hi-tech folks ought to be able to come up with a formula to boost infant IQs. After a couple of decades, older people would become moronic at a faster rate.