Breastfeeding reduces the risk of various childhood diseases

Quick Summary: Recent research on how breastfeeding in early infancy reduces the risk of various childhood diseases and conditions.

Have you ever been asked:

What’s the difference between breastfeeding and formula-feeding?

Now here’s a great new paper to have up your sleeve.

The study published in Nutrients 2021 by Kim J H et al., reveals how breastfeeding in early infancy reduces the risk of various childhood diseases and conditions.

{Personal note: I would love to see researchers talk more about the health risks associated with NOT breastfeeding….}

About the Study:

Using propensity score matching, 188,052 children were included in the study.

• 94,026 exclusively breastfed babies.
• 94,026 formula-fed babies.

All the children were born between January 2008 and December 2009.

The health of all the children was followed up until the age of 10.

The data for this study were taken from the National Investigation of birth Cohort in Korea study 2008 database.

Excluded from the study were babies who were mixed fed (breastfed and formula-fed)