Results of a Study That Randomly Assigned Mother‒infant Dyads Either

question 70

Multiple Choice

Results of a study that randomly assigned mother‒infant dyads either to an intervention encouraging breastfeeding or to a control condition without intervention indicated all of the following EXCEPT:

• A) it is difficult to encourage mothers to breastfeed.
• B) any relation between breastfeeding and cognitive development can be accounted for by social class.
• C) only infants with a specific allele that regulates fatty acids show benefits from being breastfed.
• D) there are no well-established nutritional superiority of breast milk.

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