Another potential benefit to breast-feeding has come forward as fewer behavioral problems in children.

A new study finds that parents of youngsters who were breast-fed as infants have been reporting less regarding behavioral problems in their children during the first five years of life.

Similarly, the possibilities of mental health issues reduce in proportion to the duration of breast-feeding, i.e. if a child has been breast-fed for a year is less likely to develop behavioral problems than a child who has been breast-fed for just two months.

Dr. Katherine Hobbs Knutson (a resident in the department of psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston) presented the study at the American Public Health Association’s annual meeting, in San Diego. She said: “Though it’s an early finding, it indicates that breast-feeding during infancy could have an effect on behavior during childhood.”

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The domestic sales of one of its well-known brands have been stopped by a Chinese sweet maker, as they were found to contain melamine.

The exports of the popular White Rabbit candy have already been halted by Guanshengyuan, a well known sweet maker in China.

This is being considered the latest development in a spreading food safety scandal regarding toxic milk.

According to a report, traces of the chemical have also been found in Japan and Hong Kong in products that contained Chinese milk. …Click here to read more

THURSDAY, (HealthDay News) – Children treated with acetaminophen (paracetamol) during the early days of life to reduce fever have more chances to develop asthma later on, a new study finds. It was a large study conducted in 31 countries around the world.

These children are also more likely to have diseases such as rhinoconjunctivitis and eczema when they reach to the age of age 6 to 7, according to new findings published in The Lancet.

“If this association is causative, it would suggest that acetaminophen use is a risk factor for asthma and may explain the asthma has become more common,” said lead researcher Dr. Richard Beasley. …Click here to read more

A new study suggests that older fathers may have children with bipolar disorder. This risk begin to increase when men are older than 29 and they get married. And it reaches at its peak when men are over 55.

Some other diseases like schizophrenia and autism are also linked with increasing parental age, but it’s a first study that suggests bipolar disorder or manic depression also has link with increasing parental age.

This Swedish study has been published in Archives of Psychiatry and it tells that ageing sperm may be a factor behind that increasing risk.

The Karolinska Institute researchers say in this connection, it involves copying DNA in the process of making sperm in men and this process is considered prone to error as men get older.

Emma Frans, who led the study, said: “Women come in this world with their full supply of eggs and that’s why DNA copy errors do not increase as women get older.”

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