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A new study has found that adults who were breastfed as babies earn more than those who were not

The findings suggest that a higher rate of breastfeeding could lead to ‘substantial returns’ for national economies.

A NEW STUDY has found that adults who were breastfed as babies went on to have a higher household income in comparison to those who were not.

The study, conducted by researchers at Queen’s University Belfast, looked at around 9,000 participants from a nationally representative sample of babies born in England, Wales and Scotland in 1958.

It found that adults who were breastfed had a 10% higher household income by the age of 50 in comparison to those who were not breastfed.

Dr Mark McGovern, who led the study, suggested that a higher rate of breastfeeding could lead to economic benefits.

Breastfeeding rates in the UK, especially in Northern Ireland, remain low by international standards.

However, McGovern said that a 10% increase in the number of breastfed babies in Northern Ireland each year could generate around £100 million in additional earnings, of which around £20 million could be collected in the form of tax revenue.

By comparison, McGovern suggested the implementation of a large-scale programme to increase breastfeeding rates would cost around £500,000 per year.

“Comparing costs and benefits suggests that such a programme would be highly cost-beneficial over the long run,” he said.

He added: “Our concluding results so far in the study show that if more babies are breastfed there are likely to be substantial economic returns to the resources invested in these public health campaigns, and women and children could also benefit through improvements in health, cognitive ability, and greater earnings potential.”

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    Mute Sinead
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    Aug 12th 2013, 10:21 AM

    Died in a nice comfortable bed at the age of 98…. I hope he had a miserable life with nightmares of what he did

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    Aug 12th 2013, 10:57 AM

    Na, ever listen to ex nazis memoirs? No guilt whatsoever.

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    Aug 12th 2013, 11:41 AM

    R.i.p

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    Mute John O'Neill
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    Aug 12th 2013, 11:48 AM

    Hell got a fuel supplement on Saturday…

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    Mute Jim Lenihan
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    Aug 12th 2013, 3:17 PM

    now he will meet his maker

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    Aug 12th 2013, 10:23 AM

    Ah the Sun, print lies about the hillsborough tragedy then hunt nazis to make amends

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    Mute Andrew Deegan
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    Aug 12th 2013, 11:14 AM

    Absolutely nothing to do with Hillsborough. As vile as it was it’s got nothing to do with what this sick freak did

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    Mute Stephen Doyle
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    Aug 12th 2013, 11:30 AM

    Never said it was, just thought it was nice to see that The Sun “newspaper” tracked him down

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    Mute Karol Doran
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    Aug 12th 2013, 1:33 PM

    Get over it. The sun didn’t cause the hilsbrough. And this has nothin to do with that.

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    Mute Stephen Doyle
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    Aug 12th 2013, 2:14 PM

    Get over it?? The holocaust or hillsborough, neither one should be forgotten

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    Mute Karol Doran
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    Aug 12th 2013, 2:45 PM

    Get over the suns non part in it. So they printed lies. Big deal. Papers print lies every day.

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    Mute Stephen Doyle
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    Aug 12th 2013, 3:07 PM

    and now they are the paradigm of virtue, shining light of nazi hunters, “we tracked down fritz, read the full account on page 3 under a photo of some slapper with her tits out and a story about justin biebers latest bowel movement”

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    Mute Karol Doran
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    Aug 12th 2013, 3:17 PM

    They are a joke. All tabloids are.

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    Mute Taxi Bill
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    Aug 12th 2013, 10:16 AM

    What a pity he died in hospital pitu it wasnt dangling at the end of a rope (if guilty)

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    Aug 12th 2013, 10:24 AM

    He got off lightly

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    Mute Tonybeegood
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    Aug 12th 2013, 10:32 AM

    This man was just a soldier doing his duty during a war. He can’t be held accountable for this once the war is over. He’s no more guilty than Americans who killed people in Iraq or Irish who killed the British during our own war.

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    Mute John Johnson (KCCO)
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    Aug 12th 2013, 10:35 AM

    Agreed..

    Very evil man who enjoyed following his orders without remorse.

    Just like some of the modern day war criminals we have today.

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    Mute John Flood
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    Aug 12th 2013, 10:37 AM

    Put down the crackpipeTony!!!

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    Aug 12th 2013, 10:38 AM

    Put down the crackpipe Tony!!!

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    Mute Sinead
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    Aug 12th 2013, 10:39 AM

    Just a soldier following orders…. Do he whipped and tortured people because he had no choice? Everyone has a choice and everyone is accountable for what they do

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    Mute Aisling Twomey
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    Aug 12th 2013, 10:46 AM

    Yeah, soldiers who are complicit in significant war crimes should totally walk free shouldn’t they? On that basis, Hitler, Himmler and Goebbels could nearly be acquitted. At Nuremberg, it was decided that wrong is wrong; laws that go against the grain of humanity and allow for the killing of some six million innocent people in a genocide are wrong laws. In your world, My Lai would be fine and the Nazis would be forgettable, like the genocide in Eastern Europe just twenty years ago. Give me a break: every book, film and effort at international peace in the world says you’re wrong.

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    Aug 12th 2013, 11:09 AM

    Awful examples. You seem to have a very skewed view of what a soldier does. The US military didn’t engage in the systematic extrermination of the Iraqi people in gas chambers. Although their behaviour in the Iraq was less than humane a lot of the time, the idea that they are no better than the Nazis is ludicrous.

    As for the Irish fighting the British, they were fighting a guerrilla war against an occupation that would be more suited to be compared to the Nazis, even that’s a far stretch.

    Of course war criminals can held accountable for their actions after a conflict. That’s what the ICC is for. Anyone who breaks the Geneva convention should stand trial. Although the Geneva convention was written after the second world war, it still applies to those who commited those brutal crimes against humanity againts Jews, gays, gypsies and the handicapped.

    To say they were just following orders is the exact kind of complacency that gave birth to The Third Reich.

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    Aug 12th 2013, 11:15 AM

    Surely the bombers who dropped Atomic bombs on Japan should be prosecuted as war criminals?

    Similarly those that bombed Dresden, a city of refugees.

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    Aug 12th 2013, 11:30 AM

    Absolutely they should. The bombing of Dresden was the worst act of collective punishment in the European theatre of WW2, as was the Nuking of Japan in the Pacific.

    Thhe time has passed to be able to bring those responsible for the Armenian Holocaust to justice. But the US allies in the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan should be held accountable for the deaths of up to 3000 prisoners in 2001. Which the US knew about.

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    Aug 12th 2013, 12:10 PM

    Some difference I would have thought between murdering Nazis and brave men trying to free Ireland from what was a foreign invader.

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    Aug 12th 2013, 12:13 PM

    * murderous Nazis.

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    Aug 12th 2013, 4:08 PM

    Anyone who knows anything about the slaughter at Okinawa will realise that the nuking of Japan saved millions of lives, as the next alternative was an invasion of the Japanese home islands. In Okinawa thousands of Japanese civilians resorted to killing their own children and themselves because they had been told by the Japanese military that the American would turn them all into slaves and comfort women (as the Japanese had done in Manchuria and other replaces in Asia). The Japanese military was clearly willing to countenance the complete annihilation of the Japanese people to fight off an invasion. The nuclear bombs denied them a chance of glorious defeat, and so saved the lives of millions.

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    Oct 18th 2013, 6:43 AM

    The irish must say you must be a brit lover putting us in the same sentence; lure fool you are .

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    Aug 12th 2013, 10:59 AM

    Aha the lad with the 3 pronged fork is waiting for him :)

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    Aug 12th 2013, 11:04 AM

    If only

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    Mute Tonybeegood
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    Aug 12th 2013, 10:53 AM

    We don’t see Bush, Obama or any of the rest of the warmongers on trial, but I suppose they kill people in a much nicer way so that’s ok? And if books and films say I’m wrong then I guess that proves it. However, most of these books and films are written by Americans and British so they might be slightly biased.

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    Aug 12th 2013, 11:06 AM

    I’m confused Tony, are you justifying what this man did by comparing him to other people who do wrong. Do you think he deserved to get away with it ( which he did) because there are other evils in the world? What exactly is your point here?

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    Aug 12th 2013, 11:07 AM

    You can’t compare the Holocaust to modern day deaths. Not even in the same league

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    Aug 12th 2013, 11:47 AM

    f£ck the much use that is to the victims , they are still dead.

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    Aug 12th 2013, 1:45 PM

    Killjoy. He is charged with being responsible for deaths of 15,000 people.

    Bush Senior (WW2) is responsible for enabling Germany to fight a war that caused the deaths of 10s of millions.
    Bush the 2nd (Gulf War 1) responsible for killing at least 5 times what Csatari is charged with.
    Bush the 3rd is responsible for killing at least 10 times what Csatari is charged with.

    Comparing people. Not overall events.

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    Aug 12th 2013, 12:05 PM

    The American butchers who designed , created and atom bombed two cities on totally innocent civilians ,non-combatants,old men ,women and children and babies killing 100 000s are still walking around free. The British butchers who firebombed cities with innocent Japanese women and babies killing 10 000s are also walking around free. Nobody is reporting this though.

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    Mute Jason Bourne
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    Aug 12th 2013, 1:40 PM

    “History is written by the victors”

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    Aug 12th 2013, 10:01 PM

    I suppose they should have ended the war with an invasion of the home islands and allowed millions of soldiers and Japanese civilians to be killed instead, eh? If you’re in any doubt, look at the stats for Okinawa and multiply by at least 10. Okinawa disproves the ” they were about to surrender anyway” theory that anti-American zealots usually use to point the finger at the one nation that stood between the Axis forces and world domination.

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    Aug 12th 2013, 10:26 AM

    Should have been hung with his poisonous comrades. Filth.

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    Aug 12th 2013, 10:30 AM

    As an atheist I don’t believe in any deity or afterlife but if I’m wrong then I hope this man is in eternal torment. Hopefully this will help bring closure to the remaining holocaust survivors & their families.

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    Mute Patrick
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    Aug 12th 2013, 10:58 AM

    That pic is Auschwitz 1 which actually just looks like a school outside ,I witnessed 2 asian girls burst into tears merely from the atmosphere of the place. It is really is haunting , Auschwitz 2 isn’t half as eerie.

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    Aug 12th 2013, 11:05 AM

    Yes, some awful sorrow descends on you once you see that place and stays with you forever. It’s the saddest, most haunting and eerie place I have ever visited. Rightly so. You can almost tangibly feel the horrors that occurred.

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    Aug 12th 2013, 10:20 AM

    Hopefully it was extremely painful

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    Aug 12th 2013, 10:30 AM

    As an atheist I don’t believe in any deity or afterlife but if I’m wrong then I hope this man is in eternal torment. Hopefully this will help bring closure to the remaining holocaust survivors & their families.

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    Aug 12th 2013, 11:42 AM

    The irony is he will be cremated

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    Aug 12th 2013, 11:36 AM

    I hope someone has tracked down every piece of art he dealt with while in Canada to make sure none of it was stolen off any families during the war who were rounded up by the nazi.

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    Aug 12th 2013, 12:47 PM

    If he knew Vatican was smuggling war criminals from the continent into Ireland, he would have been running some legit business like Folen, printing school books or the like.

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    Aug 12th 2013, 1:05 PM

    The world is a better place without him

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    Aug 12th 2013, 1:12 PM

    Laffin…an meanwhile barrak and the shaved chimp before him
    Travel the world and do after dinner speeches…

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    Mute Louise Maxwell
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    Aug 12th 2013, 1:54 PM

    Watch the film “Shoah”. This film is all the education anyone will ever need with regard to the holocaust.

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    Mute Arthur Callaghan
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    Aug 12th 2013, 6:57 PM

    the nazis were well ahead when it came to wartime technology. when they lost the war America stoled all there technology and within a decade later there were a super power ? makes ya think

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