By age 3 months, 79 percent of the early formula users were breastfeeding exclusively, compared with 42 percent of the controls.
Liz Good, director of the New Orleans Pharmacy Museum, said many sodas were initially touted as health aids, including 7Up, whose early formula included lithium, and Pepsi, whose name refers to pepsin, one of its original ingredients.
Exclusive breast-feeding is widely encouraged, but a study published on Monday in the journal Pediatrics is the first randomized trial of the effects of brief early formula use on future breast-feeding success.
Compared with prolonged breastfeeding, early formula feeding associated with higher adult bone mass in males.
The early formula-feeding group was used as the referent.
No significant difference was observed between late soy and early formula feeding for boys or girls or between breast-feeding and early formula feeding for girls.
However, no significant difference was observed between "early soy" and "early formula" boys.
We categorized participants into four mutually exclusive feeding groups: primarily breast-fed, early formula, early soy, and late soy.
This is one reason for the extensive use of early formula milk in China [ 15].
They saw no significant difference in girls' behavior when breastfeeding and early formula feeding were compared.
