Just wanted to mention that last summer's Lancet story is now being
circulated via Aetna's Intelihealth newsletter.


Breastmilk: It's Good For Mom, Too

January 9, 2003

(The New York Times News Service) -- Women improve their own health outlook
as well as that of their babies when they breast-feed, a major new study
conducted by Oxford University in England concludes. The study, looking back
at 47 previous studies involving 150,000 women worldwide, found that the
number of children women have and the length of time they breast-feed them
are the most important factors influencing their chance of developing breast
cancer - even more important than genetic factors. The study, published last
summer in "The Lancet" medical journal, found that if women in the
industrialized world breast-fed their children six months longer than the
current average two to three months, they could reduce their chance of breast
cancer by 5 percent with each child.
http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/WSIHW000/333/343/359912.html

Kathleen Fallon Pasakarnis, M.Ed. IBCLC
Nurturing Family Lactation and Parenting Services

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