From USA Today website
Posted 5/13/2004 7:01 PM


Study: Breast-feeding linked to better cholesterol later in life

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2004-05-13-breastfeeding_x.htm?csp=24

LONDON (AP) - Giving support to advocates of breast-feeding, new research
bolsters the theory that rapid growth in infancy, encouraged by enriched
infant formulas, might increase the risk of heart disease and stroke later
in life.
The study, described this week in The Lancet medical journal, found the
cholesterol profile was 14% better in adolescents who had been fed breast
milk as babies, compared with those fed formula.

The conclusion is the latest to come out of 20 years of research indicating
that conditions such as obesity, high blood pressure and diabetes could be
influenced by a baby's growth rate. All those conditions are linked to heart
disease.

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Janice Reynolds

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