Women who breastfeed their children for the first months of life may be more or less risk of diabetes mellitus (2 types of diabetes), according to a study of the University of Pittsburgh Department of Medicine, Eleanor Bimla Schwarz.
This news is just another reason for women to consider breastfeeding their children: Studies have concluded that breastfed infants are advantageous, but benefits for mothers as well. Proved to be not only breastfeeding mothers immediately after birth, helping women to achieve pregnancy and birth weight helps the uterus return to its normal size, but also breast, that proved to be good mothers, reducing the risks of cancer and heart disease.
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| Breastfeeding may Decrease the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes |
Schwarz says that people know, "[d] iet and exercise are widely known to influence risk of type 2 diabetes," but because breast AIDS decrease in belly fat, the risk of developing type 2 diabetes is decreased: Schwarz believes that the study , would have led medical professionals to encourage young mothers to breastfeed their children during the first month for 'life, if not more.
2,233 women aged between 40 and 78 participated in the study, which took place in 2003 - 2008. The survey showed that mothers in the survey, 56 percent had breastfed their infants exclusively for a month or more. But 27 percent of mothers do not breastfeed, and were found to be twice as likely to be diagnosed with diabetes type 2. Other factors, such as family history of diabetes, and tobacco and alcohol use were accounted for.
The survey also shows that breastfeeding for a longer time may further reduce risks. Women who breastfed their children for more than six months were less likely to develop diabetes type 2 than in women who had their children breastfed between one and six months.