Has anyone anywhere conducted a study on if there could possibly be a connection between breast feeding and autism? The increase in autism seems to have coincided with the increase in breast feeding. Breast feeding was the way it was done before the forties/ fifties when the air and food were comparatively clean. Then bottle feeding came into vogue. After that came the big push for breast feeding. By that time, the air was polluted and assorted chemicals were being added to the food supply. More pollution and chemicals and more autism. At one time the best way and only way to feed our babies. Not too sure about today. Study on this anyone?? (The breast milk of some Eskimo indians has become contaminated - does it stop there?)