Breast Feeding reduces heart disease risk factors in later years

Until now, we knew that breast feeding is good for the babies but now the reports have something more to tell. Recent studies revealed that breast feeding reduces heart disease risk factors in later years. No matter for how long, a mother feeds her baby, a breast feeding done even for a few months helps reducing heart diseases in mothers in the later years.

This fact has been revealed not after a few years study but after a complete 20-year study. It revealed that breast feeding not only helps the babies to grow properly but also helps reducing the risks of diseases like diabetes and heart strokes. It helps reducing a woman’s risk of metabolic syndrome, a group of risk factors for heart.

Moreover, the longer a woman breast feeds her baby, the better it will be for her later health. The research also revealed that women who give breast feed to their baby for more than nine months reduces the risk of metabolic syndrome by 86%.

Breast feeding really works wonders both for the baby and the mother. On one hand, the baby when breast fed has lower risks of ear infection, stomach problem, asthma, skin allergy diabetes and respiratory illnesses. On the other hand, mother who breast feed have less risks of breast cancer, ovarian cancer, diabetes and postpartum depression.

Now, let us talk about the metabolic syndrome. It is a group of risk factors that arises in a person. This syndrome can cause abdominal obesity, low levels of HDL cholesterol and high level of LCDL cholesterol, high blood pressure, insulin resistance and high triglycerides.

Researchers have not yet discovered how breast feeding benefit against heart diseases, but they do suspect that the women who breast feed have less accumulation of belly fat and therefore have less risks of heart diseases.