In this episode, we examine the Daily Mail's claim that "studies have shown that breast milk lowers the incidence of diarrhoea, influenza and respiratory infections during infancy. It also protects against the later development of allergies, type 1 diabetes, multiple sclerosis and other illnesses". Oh really.

 

Sources

Daily Mail:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2194613/Another-reason-breast-best.html

Conradi et al., 2012: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.873.8577&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Ragnedda et al., 2015: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kjell-Morten-Myhr/publication/273833373_Reduced_duration_of_breastfeeding_is_associated_with_a_higher_risk_of_multiple_sclerosis_in_both_Italian_and_Norwegian_adult_males_the_EnvIMS_study/links/5562f86808ae8c0cab3345e6/Reduced-duration-of-breastfeeding-is-associated-with-a-higher-risk-of-multiple-sclerosis-in-both-Italian-and-Norwegian-adult-males-the-EnvIMS-study.pdf