Research on Breast Feeding and Health Outcomes

All studies on the benefits of breast feeding are observational, so there are no randomized control studies. So it turns out that most women who breast feed also do not smoke. If babies of mothers who breast feed have a lower chance of respiratory infections, or they get tuer respiratory infections, we can't tell if it's because their mothers breast fed, right? Because we don't randomise controlled studies, we cannot control for those confounding factors. For example, one very famous study of breast beating outcomes was conducted in bellaros and that study found that,. you know, the children in bellarus actually don't get ear infections at all, and they don't get diarrhoea almost at