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Breastfeeding 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.; p0 A7 L: l0 R3 E( s7 L
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.
; o7 O$ v$ Z$ n( h9 `& Y. u/ h2 _“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.# o; }% V5 ^ t Z& q/ ~
“Our evidence suggests that the reason why breast-fed babies do better is because they grow more ____6____ in the early weeks.”) K& L" n8 W B8 I" v
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.! c4 w ~+ | Q H9 A. u& j( K1 y1 {
An estimated 17 million people die of _____8_____ disease, particularly heart attack and strokes, each year, according to the World Health Organisation.
+ `+ r& m2 l6 I* v% T+ dLucas 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.
, D5 y; Q2 V, M9 m n! gThe 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.
3 l: [9 _, k% W& h: bThe 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.
" i2 G9 M# S& F6 T' Y: H% V5 o& ~“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.
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