{"id":431,"date":"2013-03-31T20:30:15","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T19:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc-archimedes\/?p=431"},"modified":"2013-03-30T20:05:12","modified_gmt":"2013-03-30T19:05:12","slug":"another-brick-out-of-the-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/2013\/03\/31\/another-brick-out-of-the-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Another brick out of the wall."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 5px;margin-right: 5px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/fc02.deviantart.net\/fs70\/f\/2012\/225\/2\/e\/happy_baby_hotshot_the_autobot_by_hotshothumanautobot-d5ay90p.png\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/>Unpopular things are tricky, aren&#8217;t they. Like saying &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jadohealth.2007.08.026\">Abstinence programmes for sex education don&#8217;t help reduce unwanted pregnancy<\/a>&#8221; or &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/21631747\">dummy use in babies reduced SIDS and didn&#8217;t really cause funny teeth<\/a> &#8220;. Here&#8217;s another one &#8211; breast feeding probably doesn&#8217;t reduce obesity rates in later childhood. The results of an 11 year follow up of an RCT [1] confirm that, as systematic reviews with meta-analysis have suggested, the weight reduction in children may be the result of publication bias and selective outcome reporting bias.<\/p>\n<p>There are still some really great reasons to breastfeed; stuff like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC1307172\/\">longer periods of proper sleep experienced as a father<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biomedcentral.com\/1471-2458\/11\/S3\/S15\">reduction in GI disturbance <\/a>and death,\u00a0and potentially <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/ijc.21274\/abstract\">reduced chance of childhood leukaemia<\/a> (well &#8211; that&#8217;s a bit weak too). Breast IS best, but let&#8217;s not oversell it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1. Martin RM, Patel R, Kramer MS, Guthrie L, Vilchuck K, Bogdanovich N, et al. Effects of promoting longer-term and exclusive breastfeeding on adiposity and insulin-like growth factor-I at age 11.5 years: a randomized trial. JAMA 2013;309(10):1005-13.<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unpopular things are tricky, aren&#8217;t they. Like saying &#8220;Abstinence programmes for sex education don&#8217;t help reduce unwanted pregnancy&#8221; or &#8220;dummy use in babies reduced SIDS and didn&#8217;t really cause funny teeth &#8220;. Here&#8217;s another one &#8211; breast feeding probably doesn&#8217;t reduce obesity rates in later childhood. The results of an 11 year follow up of [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/2013\/03\/31\/another-brick-out-of-the-wall\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archimedes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}