- Babies who consume nothing but breast milk for their first three months of life may have healthier cholesterol levels by adolescence than infants who drink formula, a new study suggests.
"The differences we saw between breastfed and formula fed infants could be due to differences between the mothers who did and did not breastfeed," senior study author Mary Schooling of the University of Hong Kong said by email."However, the adolescents in our study were born in Hong Kong in 1997 when breastfeeding was not so common and there were few differences between the mothers who did and did not breastfeed.
Overweight teens tended to have higher total and LDL cholesterol levels than adolescents at healthy weights.
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