{"id":52345,"date":"2019-01-11T10:45:24","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T10:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=52345"},"modified":"2019-01-11T10:45:24","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T10:45:24","slug":"bottle-fed-babies-more-likely-to-be-left-handed-study-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/bottle-fed-babies-more-likely-to-be-left-handed-study-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Bottle-fed babies more likely to be left handed, study claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Infants who are bottle-fed are more likely to be left handed than those who are breastfed, scientists claim.The study of about 60,000 mother-infant pairs found that the prevalence of left-handedness is lower among breastfed infants as compared to bottle-fed infants.<\/p>\n<p>The study, published in the journal Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition, provide further insight into the development of complex brain functions which ultimately determine the infant&#8217;s handedness.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We think breastfeeding optimises the process the brain undergoes when solidifying handedness,&#8221; said Philippe Hujoel, a professor at University of Washington in the US.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s important because it provides an independent line of evidence that breastfeeding may need to last six to nine months,&#8221; said Hujoel.The study does not imply, however, that breastfeeding leads to right-handedness, Hujoel said. Handedness, whether it be right- or left-handed, is set early in foetal life and is at least partially determined by genetics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infants who are bottle-fed are more likely to be left handed than those who are breastfed, scientists claim.The study of about 60,000 mother-infant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52347,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52345\/revisions\/52347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}