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Breastfeeding Can Cut Cardiovascular Risk

Breastfeeding can reduce the risk of a heart attack or stroke later in life and could prevent hundreds of (51) of deaths each year, researchers said on Friday.
Babies who are breastfed have fewer childhood infections and allergies and are less (52) to obesity. British scientists have now shown that breastfeeding and slow growth in the first weeks and months of life has a protective effect (53) cardiovascular disease.
"Diets that promote more rapid growth put babies at risk many years later in (54) of raising their blood pressure, raising their cholesterol and increasing their tendency to diabetes and obesity--the (55) main risk factors for stroke and heart attack." said Professor Alan Lucas of the Institute of Child Health in London.
"Our evidence suggests that the reason why breast-fed babies do better is because they grow more (56)
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