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Breastfeeding 'aids class status'
Babies who are breastfed are more likely to move up the social ladder as adults, a study has suggested.
The University of Bristol team looked at 1,400 babies born from 1937-1939 and followed their progress for 60 years.
Those who were breastfed were 41% more likely to move up in class than those who were bottle-fed.
Experts said the Archives of Disease in Childhood study supported the idea that breastfeeding led to better long-term outcomes for children.
The people studied had all originally taken part in the Boyd Orr Study of Diet and Health in Pre-War Britain carried out in 1937-1939.
They were followed up until an average age of 73.
Whether or not a baby was breastfed was less to do with class than it is now, when the practice is often more popular with middle-class families.
In fact, there may have been a slightly increased chance that richer families would bottle-feed babies, because they would be able to afford formula milk and nannies.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6356827.stm