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...something, and listeners in Dallas are resetting their radios at a breakneck pace. "This station just makes sense," says Richard Lovett, 38, owner of Dallas Home Renovations. "If I want talk, I'll listen to sports-talk radio. But I want to hear music throughout the workday." Kathy Reinisch, 43, of Fort Worth, loves that she and her 17-year-old son can enjoy the same radio station. "When I used to rock out in the car, he'd complain until I turned the channel. Now songs he likes play right after mine...
...Academy of Pediatrics recommends that babies nurse for six months and, if possible, for 12 or more. (Iron-fortified infant formula can be substituted, if necessary, but no cow's milk for a full year.) Twelve months is a long time, however, especially for working mothers. I asked June Reinisch, former director of the Kinsey Institute and one of the authors of the J.A.M.A. study, what she advises. "More is better" as far as IQ is concerned, she says. "Up to nine months...
What is it about breast milk that makes babies so smart? Reinisch suspects there is a component of mother's milk that either protects the central nervous system or stimulates its development. The likeliest candidate: a long-chain polyunsaturated acid known as DHA that is found in human milk but not in infant formula or cow's milk. Today's infant formulas, by the way, are fortified with a precursor of DHA called ala and may offer some of the same benefits...
Whatever the reason, the bottom line is the same. "If you can breast-feed, do it," says Reinisch. For the record, Reinisch is a very smart woman with a Ph.D., yet she was never breast-fed. I was breast-fed only briefly, and while I think I probably could have used a few extra IQ points, my mother assures me that I turned out just fine...
Although such findings suggest a strong biological influence, they are hardly conclusive. One problem: Are the differences in brain tissue the cause or the result of differences in behavior? "You've always got to keep in mind that experience changes the brain," stresses June Reinisch, director of the Kinsey Institute. And if nature is paramount, why don't identical twins always have the same sexual orientation...