Your Baby Warms Your Heart. Breastfeeding Might Protect It

 It's well established that breastfeeding confers a wide range of health benefits to both mother and baby. 

For instance, a mother's risk of obesity, breast and ovarian cancer, and osteoporosis go down if she nursed, reports the Independent. But now researchers report in the Journal of the American Heart Association that breastfeeding positively impacts heart health years down the road, too. 

Analyzing data from nearly 300,000 women ages 30 to 79 in China, 99% of whom had given birth and 97% of whom had breastfed, they found that after 8 years of study, breastfeeding mothers had a 9% lower risk of heart disease and an 8% lower risk of stroke when compared to their non-breastfeeding counterparts. Those figures grew the longer a women nursed her child.

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