Babies who are breastfed for even just a few months from birth tend to score higher on neurocognitive tests at age 10, a new study has revealed.
Researchers in the US gave cognitive tests to nine and ten-year-olds whose mothers reported they were breastfed, and compared their results to scores of children who were not.
The findings suggest that any amount of breastfeeding has a positive cognitive impact on children, although the longer the children were breastfed, the higher their score.
Dr Daniel Adan Lopez, first author of the study, said: Hopefully from a policy standpoint, this can help improve the motivation to breastfeed.
Taylor Tepper - Forbes Advisor
A year has come and gone since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States in March 2020, upending all of our lives.
Hundreds of thousands of Americans have lost their lives, millions have lost their jobs and practically every kid (and parent) in America has endured school at home for months on end. Weâve changed how we work, how we shop and how we socialize.
But thereâs one thing that hasnât changed: retirement. Despite concerns that folks might raid their 401(k)s or companies would axe benefits en masse, most workers saved for retirement in 2020 much as they would any other year.
After One Year Of Covid-19, America’s Retirement Crisis Is Little Changed
March 16, 2021 5:00 AM Taylor Tepper - Forbes Advisor
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March 17, 2021 7:15 PM
A year has come and gone since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States in March 2020, upending all of our lives.
Hundreds of thousands of Americans have lost their lives, millions have lost their jobs and practically every kid (and parent) in America has endured school at home for months on end. We’ve changed how we work, how we shop and how we socialize.
But there’s one thing that hasn’t changed: retirement. Despite concerns that folks might raid their 401(k)s or companies would axe benefits en masse, most workers saved for retirement in 2020 much as they would any other year.