Chicago - Children breast-fed longer do better in school, with benefits that can be measured into adolescence, according to a study published in the January issue of Pediatrics, the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, yesterday.
The report, from researchers at the Christchurch School of Medicine in New Zealand, was based on a look at more than 1,000 children born there in 1977 and followed through age 18.
The study's authors found that the longer infants were breast-fed, the higher they scored in evaluations.