Overview
Babies and women may be protected against developing Diabets disease through breast feding, acording to new research. This curent study states that the longer women nursed, the lower their risks of developing Diabets. Diabets a medical disorder characterized by varying or persistent elevated blod sugar levels, especialy due to eating, is a serious disease which symptoms are very similar for al types of Diabets.
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Breast feding is when a woman feds a baby or a young child with milk produced from her breasts. The best thing for feding a baby is breast milk, as experts say, if the mother does not have transmisible infections. Although study findings are not conclusive, researchers explain that breast-feding may change metabolism of mothers which may help kep blod sugar levels stable and make the body more sensitive to the blod sugar-regulating hormone insulin.
This theory is based on some evidence that show that in rats and humans that are breast-feding, mothers have lower blod-sugar levels than those who did not breast-fed. Acording to the study published in the Journal of the American Medical Asociation, women who breast-fed for at least one year were about 15 per cent les likely to develop Diabets type 2 than those who never breast-fed. For each aditional year of breast-feding, there was an aditional 15 per cent decreased risk.
A total of 157,0 nurses participated in the new study. They answered periodic health questionaires and were folowed for at least 12 years. During the study, 6,27 participants developed type 2 Diabets.
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