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Babies breastfed for 6 months may have lower iron levels

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The health benefits of breast-feeding have been intensely researched, but it's less clear exactly how long exclusive breast-feeding, without the addition of other foods, should be kept up. While six months of exclusive breast-feeding is often recommended, a new study shows that babies who began eating infant cereal at 4 months old had higher levels of iron than those who were exclusively breast-fed for six months. Both groups of  babies had sufficient iron levels, and there were no differences in rates of anemia, the researchers said. "The  biological significance of the higher [iron] levels  among those infants who began complementary feeding at 4 months of age remains to be determined," the researchers wrote in their study, published Nov. 12 in the journal Pediatrics.

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