Breastfeeding Can Cut Cardiovascular Risk
& g1 L, @8 z; U* L5 WBreastfeeding can reduce the risk of a heart attack or stoke later in life and could prevent hundreds of ____1_____ of deaths each year, researchers said on Friday.' U2 E7 p/ _5 Z q" w9 q1 a0 p% s
Babies who are breastfed have fewer childhood infections and allergies and are less ____2____ to obesity. British scientists have now shown that breastfeeding and slow growth in the first weeks and months of life has a protective effect ____3___ cardiovascular disease.
3 n, M; |2 M0 m4 [1 h6 h9 G“Diets that promote more rapid growth put babies at risk many years later in ____4____ of raising their blood pressure, raising their cholesterol and increasing their tendency to diabetes and obesity—the _____5____ main risk factors for stroke and heart attack,” said Professor Alan Lucas of the Institute of Child Health in London.3 t' M0 O3 i0 ]% y1 A
“Our evidence suggests that the reason why breast-fed babies do better is because they grow more ____6____ in the early weeks.”' ?) B! N H g8 v" K J& l# j
Lucas said the effects of breastfeeding on blood pressure and cholesterol later in life are greater than _____7_____ adults can do to control the risk factors for cardiovascular disease, other than taking drugs.( [- p4 z. r% ^
An estimated 17 million people die of _____8_____ disease, particularly heart attack and strokes, each year, according to the World Health Organisation.6 z. R2 G: y0 j, o2 z! K
Lucas and his colleagues compared the health of 216 teenagers ____9___ as babies had either been breastfed or given different nutritional baby formulas1. They reported their _____10____ in The Lancet medical journal.
! [1 X |1 E0 z7 qThe teenagers who had been ___11____ had a 14-percent lower ratio of bad to good cholesterol and lower concentrations of a protein that is a marker for cardiovascular disease risk.
, V5 p- S* T) B- zThe researchers also found that, ____12___ of the child’s weight at birth, the faster the infants grew in the early weeks and months of life, the ____13____ was their later risk of heart disease and stroke. The effect was the ___14___ for both boys and girls.0 ^4 v. ~* K; v5 g
“The more human milk you have in the newborn period, the lower your cholesterol level is, the lower your blood pressure is 16 years ____15____,” Lucas said.% i3 v& _( ~$ z* j8 U
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