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Tuesday, July 12, 2011

What Does Bottle-Feeding Have To Do With Autism Risk?

As if there weren't already enough tension between bottle-feeding and breast-feeding moms, now a researcher at the State University of New York at Albany is courting controversy by suggesting that bottle-feeding is associated with an increased risk of autism.

In actuality, it's not bottle-feeding per se that may be linked to autism, but the absence of breast-feeding, contends evolutionary psychologist Gordon Gallup in an article published in June in the journal Medical Hypotheses.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Another crackpot theory about autism.
The fact is that they keep changing the criteria that defines someone who has autism so that more and more people are diagnosed with it.
Just a trial lawyer boon doggle

Anonymous said...

You can't go wrong with breast milk.

Anonymous said...

Breast is best.