Breast-Feeding Is Good For Mothers, Not Just Babies, Studies Suggest
by The Daily Eye Team November 25 2015, 5:12 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 27 secsBreast milk may provide the ideal nourishment for an infant, but two recent studies are putting a different spin on the bottle-versus-breast debate, suggesting it is mothers, and not just babies, who may have much to gain from breast-feeding. One study found that breast-feeding may help protect women from a particularly vicious type of breast cancer. The other suggests that breast-feeding may act as a sort of ??eset??button for metabolism after pregnancy, helping women who had gestational diabetes avoid becoming lifelong diabetics. Read More at www.well.blogs.nytimes.com