article_snippet: Not only does breastfeeding have clear short-term benefits, such as protection from infectious diseases and a reduction in mortality, CNN)"Breast's also been shown to be associated with an increase in intelligence.
article_snippet: Prior studies have shown an increase of up to 7.5 IQ points in elementary age children who were breastfed, as well as an increase in verbal, performance and comprehensive IQ in adults.
article_snippet: we observed that breastfeeding was positively associated with performance and intelligence at 30 years old, as well as with education, school achievement and higher monthly incomes.
article_snippet: In fact, Lessa Horta said the subjects who had been breastfed for 12 months or longer had a higher IQ (about 3.7 points), more years of education and earned roughly 20% more than the average income level.
article_snippet: It's suggesting that the positive effect of breastfeeding on IQ leads to a higher income," Lessa Horta said.
article_snippet: One possible reason for the advantage of breast milk, Lessa Horta added, is that it is "rich in long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids which are important to brain growth and development.
article_snippet: the study does not address the very real possibility that mothers who choose to breastfeed, regardless of income or education, distinguish mothers who choose to breastfeed from those who bottle-feed in all kinds of ways that are likely to promote intelligence," Wolf wrote CNN.
article_snippet: It's more evidence that besides the clear short term benefits, breastfeeding also has long term consequences in terms of human potential.
highlights_snippet: Long-term study finds that IQ at age 30 was nearly 4 points higher for babies breastfed for a year or more .
  