Monday, June 22, 2009

Nurse for longer, save your health!

News on nursing:
Breast-feeding for more than one year reduces deaths from diabetes, stroke and heart disease - in mothers.

http://journals.lww.com/greenjournal/Abstract/2009/05000/Duration_of_Lactation_and_Risk_Factors_for.5.aspx

CONCLUSION: Among postmenopausal women, increased duration of lactation was associated
with a lower prevalence of hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, and cardiovascular disease.

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