The debate rages on with natural health supporters and practitioners who claim that natural breast feeding is much healthier for babies than commercially-produced formula.

Aside from health benefits, researchers in Sweden believe that breast feeding may also lead to less stress in those who are fed that way as babies.

9,000 kids from the UK to -- all born in 1970 -- were observed to provide researchers with the conclusions they were looking for. All were given a "anxiety level" rating by their childhood teachers. Parents were also asked about major life events such as divorce that happened when kids were between the ages of 5 and 10.

Although some non-surprising results were found, there was one surprise: striking differences were found in stress levels between kids who had been breast-fed and those that had been bottle-fed. One is a natural nutrition source connected to a mother: the other is an artificial device that mimics the breast. Which would you prefer as a baby?

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Kids are under more stress than many parents probably realize. The times have developed into more broken homes, more bullies and violence at school, more media pressure to something you're not and many other things. What can parents do to try and give back playful, non-stress innocence to their children?

Kids will have stress no matter what, but minimizing the effects of it and teaching kids how to have healthy outlets for it is probably needed now more than ever.

From what I have seen, writing things down is a great step for many kids. For boys, it's a journal. For girls, a diary. Sure, there are other stress outlets that work as well. Writing feelings down though, helps life all that weight.

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