LOS ANGELES—Women older than age 50 who breastfed their babies performed better on cognitive tests than women who never breastfed, according to a study led by researchers at the University of California–Los Angeles (UCLA) Health.
“While many studies have found that breastfeeding improves a child’s long-term health and well-being, our study is one of very few that has looked at the long-term health effects for women who had breastfed their babies,” Molly Fox, lead author of the study and an assistant professor in the UCLA Department of Anthropology and the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, said in a statement.
