The Real Link Between Breastfeeding and Preventing Obesity

Woman breastfeeding a baby on the couch.

Harvard Health Blog While we know that breastfeeding has many health benefits for mothers and babies, the studies have been a bit fuzzy when it comes to the link between breastfeeding and preventing obesity in children. Some studies show a clear link, but in others that link is less clear. A study published in the […]

Breast milk can protect preemies

Sleeping newborn baby

Source: John Hopkins Medicine The immune-boosting properties of breast milk have long been known. Now a team of scientists led by Johns Hopkins pediatric surgeon-in-chief David Hackam, M.D., Ph.D., says experiments in mice reveal how breast milk works to ward off the development of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), a devastating intestinal disorder that affects 12 percent […]