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• Breast milk linked to significant early brain growth in preemies

  30-04-2016 16:05
  Feeding premature babies mostly breast milk during the first month of life appears to spur more robust brain growth. Those preemies whose daily diets were at least 50 percent breast milk had more brain tissue and cortical-surface area by their due dates than premature babies who consumed significantly less breast milk.
  
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• The key to learning a new skill? Wanting it badly enough

  30-04-2016 10:00
  
  Learning is all about motivation. When we really want to learn something, we generally succeed, even when the going gets toughImagine I gave you a book full of words, numbers and strange symbols – 150-odd pages of the stuff. Some of the things relate to each other in obvious ways, others not so much. Now suppose I’m going to test you: 50 questions about the contents of that book, how do you think you’d do?Well, if you can drive a car, chances are you’ve already done very
  
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