Breastfeeding 'helps to boost IQ'

It's official, seemingly, just 18 months after having been disproved, here, it has now been decided that suckling one's young does indeed give them a headstart in life as far as intellect is concerned.

I find it not overly surprising that higher IQ people, statistically, are more likely to have been breastfed as their probably fairly high IQ mothers are probably, statistically, more likely to have breastfed them than their lower IQ counterparts are to have breastfed their probably equally lower IQ offspring. Breastfeeding therefore being more likely the effect of, rather than the cause of, a higher IQ.

The new report offers no explanation to refute the doubts that the earlier article casts upon the possible causal relationship which yesterday's report claims to exist. For much that breastfeeding promotion programmes existed, one must assume that they were not forcible and that uptake among Bylorussian mothers would be influenced by their own intelligence allowing them to see the advantages put forward by medical staff or through their own common sense.

It would be hoped that the researchers would have performed IQ tests on the mothers and to have looked for correlation between IQ and uptake of the breastfeeding programme.