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More or Less: Behind the Stats

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The Benefits of Breastfeeding in Early Life

There is a randomized trial with exactly that what's called an encouragement design run in the 1990s in Belarus. And there they encouraged some group of women to breastfeed more strongly than another. There are actually quite large impacts on digestive health for preterm babies in the NICU. Some of these benefits in early life definitely do seem to be causally linked to breastfeeding.

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