Breast milk increases a child's IQ

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Breast milk has been known to have many benefits, even the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that mothers who had just childbirth to give their babies exclusively breastfed for the first six months. Why exclusive breastfeeding? Considerable evidence indicates that nutrients from Breast milk is able to provide health benefits for your child. Besides useful to enhance the immune system, Breast milk also appeared to have a very large effect to prevent the occurrence of asthma and bacterial diseases of children. In addition, children who are given exclusive breastfeeding can avoid overweight or obese.

Breast milk can provide other benefits that increased intelligence or IQ, is that right?

Research at Harvard University showed that children who were breastfed have better language skills at the age of 3 years. They also have a high IQ scores at age 7 years. IQ scores in breastfed infants in early life is up 4 points.

"We found that babies who were breastfed for more than six months, he will have the verbal skills and IQ are more about 4 points compared friend later age when 6 years old," explains Professor Wendy Oddy. Quoted from ABC Australia, Friday (09/26/2014).
Even Professor Michael Kramer, a consultant paeditrician The WHO has found the fact that diligent children breast-fed by his mother will have a high IQ when he was 6 years old. The reason is there are a lot of fat in the Breast milk of healthy Omega-3 which is very useful for brain development.

Many ways can be done by mothers to build their cognitive abilities, "playing with children, diligent talking with children, reading with children, providing food rich in nutrients, provide physical activity, and not smoking, all of it can stimulate the cognitive development of the child