Breastfeeding Can Cut Cardiovascular Risk
! b2 T9 F6 b+ I/ N8 k- DBreastfeeding can reduce the risk of a heart attack or stroke later in life and could prevent hundreds of_____1_____of deaths each year, researchers said on Friday.
! f9 M+ U+ \. R# yBabies who are breastfed have fewer childhood infections and allergies and are less_____2_____to obesity. British scientists have now shown that breastfeeding and slow grown in the first weeks and months of life has a protective effect_____3_____cardiovascular disease.: }" Q3 C# L& i8 X
“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.% z" B/ Y. a7 }+ ^6 l# z
“Our evidence suggests that the reason why breast-fed babies do better is because they grow more_____6_____in the early weeks.”
0 `4 e7 R4 r# r6 Y+ i0 @' \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.8 H; T3 b9 O: O$ A
An estimated 17 million people die of_____8_____disease, particularly heart attack and strokes, each year, according to the World Health Organization.
7 f1 W8 m% F; {( ?Lucas and his colleagues compared the health of 216 teenagers_____9_____as babies had either been breastfed or given different nutritional baby formulas. They reported their_____10_____ in The Lancet medical journal.
; q% g/ ?& l& Y; zThe 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. X4 M6 @$ Y3 z, _% ?
The 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.
9 X0 y3 k G# v7 Y“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.5 K. H& d0 o0 x: W) B5 t8 j
1.A.hundreds B. thousands C. millions D. numbers0 Y& L- p& Q/ P4 V; ^2 w9 b& }
2.A.likely B. possible C. easy D. prone |
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