Breast-feeding may boost diversity of healthy gut bacteria in babies

From MyHealthNewsDaily.com (4/30):

Researchers examined stool samples from 12 babies and found that those who were breast-fed had a wider range of gut bacteria than those who were formula-fed. Furthermore, the immunity genes responsible for protecting gut tissue from foreign invaders were more active among breast-fed babies, researchers reported in the journal Genome Biology.

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