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Breastfeeding improves a child?s chance of climbing the social ladder and becoming a successful adult, according to a long-term study.
The analysis of more than 34,000 people born in the 1950s and 1970s found that those who had been breastfed as a baby were 24 per cent more likely to be upwardly mobile ? and 20 per cent less likely to drop down the social ladder.
The health benefits of breastfeeding are well known, but the study is among the first to identify tangible benefits later in life.
Two groups of people ? born in 1958 and in 1970 ? were categorised by the job their father did when they were 10 or 11, and the job they themselves had when they were 33 or 34.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...mprove-longterm-career-prospects-8672173.html
The analysis of more than 34,000 people born in the 1950s and 1970s found that those who had been breastfed as a baby were 24 per cent more likely to be upwardly mobile ? and 20 per cent less likely to drop down the social ladder.
The health benefits of breastfeeding are well known, but the study is among the first to identify tangible benefits later in life.
Two groups of people ? born in 1958 and in 1970 ? were categorised by the job their father did when they were 10 or 11, and the job they themselves had when they were 33 or 34.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...mprove-longterm-career-prospects-8672173.html