Share Twitter Ghana News Share View Comments Studies on breastfeeding and intelligence generally show that breastfeeding has a positive effect on the child's IQ. For example, a study done in Copenhagen, Denmark, of more than 3,000 young men and women found that infants breastfed for nine months grew up to be significantly more intelligent than infants breastfed for one month or less. Breast milk contains several substances that help the baby's brain and can increase the child's IQ over his bottle-fed peers. It contains docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), an omega-3 fatty acid that is important for the brain. The levels of this fatty acid in breast milk depend on the mother's consumption of...
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