Benefits of breastfeeding for infants, many are unknown, but researchers discover more and more Americans to reward the health benefits of the mother. show, in fact, latest research shows that women in care have reduced the amount of fat in the abdomen, even after many years.
Studying at the cardiovascular health of the American Heart Association in San Francisco was introduced, the USA, shows that middle-aged women in order to breastfeed their babies were always close to the 6.6 cm on average waist circumference than women not breast-feed.
Stomach is the least healthy place for women to store fat, and breast-feeding seems the real purpose of these bad fats
Said study author Candace McClure, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pittsburgh, USA offers. Breastfeeding benefits for babies, including a reduced risk of ear infections, asthma, stomach problems, respiratory problems, skin allergies, diabetes, SIDS, the S. by the Department of Health and Human Services. Mothers, research has shown that breastfeeding is the risk of contracting type 2 diabetes, breast cancer, ovarian cancer, postpartum depression is reduced.
Recent studies have also shown that women who know their children at less risk for heart disease and other factors that condition such as diabetes and metabolic syndrome help to calm him. Many experts suspect that it is not just for the additional expenditure of calories benefits arising as a result of breastfeeding, but also because breastfeeding helps to lose belly fat fast. Excess abdominal fat is indeed a risk factor for cardiovascular disease.
To see what the long-term impact on the level of the chest abdomen, McClure and his colleagues examined data on 351 women in the study the health of women around the heart of the nation studies, running from 2001 to 2003.
Early women with an average age of 51 years, on average two children each, the newly born earlier to an average of 19 years. Then they were in groups, 29% of the women had never shared breastfeeding, 29% borstvoeding in (non-constant less than three months for each child) and 42% were breast-fed in a row (each for at least three months).
Women who were premenopausal or early perimenopausal symptoms showed that breast cancer 28% more body fat in the stomach longer women breast-feed their children. Women who were not, chest circumference by 6.6 cm on average higher than in breast-feeding women all the time, and waist-hip ratio was 4.7% higher. Risk of heart disease is also higher.