Breastfeeding Can Cut Cardiovascular Risk$ O7 i3 E V% D
Breastfeeding 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.
3 N# N. B' Z& c. l4 u( rBabies 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.
( y5 B& N! {0 ?4 y) }# z+ I5 \# F“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.
8 T# r% Q* } P% Q3 j2 J9 {1 l& \“Our evidence suggests that the reason why breast-fed babies do better is because they grow more_____6_____in the early weeks.” s$ U I* W, K* C
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.! u7 s5 \; h/ O. O: _
An estimated 17 million people die of_____8_____disease, particularly heart attack and strokes, each year, according to the World Health Organization.
0 ?- e% x9 S' v2 H! \0 Y! S6 _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.
3 J F% l$ X% W& z. x- |The 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.
8 `& V |! o; j" hThe 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.
8 C0 l* c1 o2 U9 ~3 I“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 q2 c3 G- Q" s l: }+ L5 V# R, a1.A.hundreds B. thousands C. millions D. numbers, [5 ^ f/ ?! N) ?
2.A.likely B. possible C. easy D. prone |
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