Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Everyone is welcome here.
(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Wed, Oct 04 2006
Breast-fed babies and I.Q.
It's probably a good thing that a recent study returned results showing that breast-fed children do not necessarily show higher intelligence. If things had gone the other way we'd be seeing a rash of web sites similar to the voting sites that proclaim "hot or not". In this case they'd be asking people to vote on photos as "breast-fed or not breast-fed". We'd have people being asked about their earliest source of nourishment on their job and college applications. Formerly formula-fed children would be taunted by bullies on the playground. Bottle-fed CEO candidates with stellar job histories would be hauled before boards of directors and then cast aside in favor of someone who claimed that no baby bottle liquids ever passed through his or her lips. Public breast feeding, already a controversial issue, would be the subject of debate on both U.S. House and Senate floors for more hours than campaign finance reform, tax cuts for the wealthy and the war on terror combined. We'd have breast milk rings smuggling the precious white liquid across every border on the planet with black market figures rivaling those of the U.S. trade deficit with China.
Of course, it doesn't take a breast-fed rocket scientist to know that we'll be hit with another study any minute now—one touting empirical evidence contrary to this study's results. In the meantime it's comforting for those of us who were nourished otherwise to hear that, for the moment, it seems that breast feeding has not been proven a sure (pardon the pun) formula for success.
posted at: 12:01 | category: /Health and Fitness | link to this entry
It's probably a good thing that a recent study returned results showing that breast-fed children do not necessarily show higher intelligence. If things had gone the other way we'd be seeing a rash of web sites similar to the voting sites that proclaim "hot or not". In this case they'd be asking people to vote on photos as "breast-fed or not breast-fed". We'd have people being asked about their earliest source of nourishment on their job and college applications. Formerly formula-fed children would be taunted by bullies on the playground. Bottle-fed CEO candidates with stellar job histories would be hauled before boards of directors and then cast aside in favor of someone who claimed that no baby bottle liquids ever passed through his or her lips. Public breast feeding, already a controversial issue, would be the subject of debate on both U.S. House and Senate floors for more hours than campaign finance reform, tax cuts for the wealthy and the war on terror combined. We'd have breast milk rings smuggling the precious white liquid across every border on the planet with black market figures rivaling those of the U.S. trade deficit with China.
Of course, it doesn't take a breast-fed rocket scientist to know that we'll be hit with another study any minute now—one touting empirical evidence contrary to this study's results. In the meantime it's comforting for those of us who were nourished otherwise to hear that, for the moment, it seems that breast feeding has not been proven a sure (pardon the pun) formula for success.
posted at: 12:01 | category: /Health and Fitness | link to this entry
