Breastfeeding protects women from metabolic syndrome, a diabetes and heart disease predictor

Thursday, December 3, 2009 - 10:08 in Health & Medicine

December 3 2009 (Oakland, Calif.) -- Breastfeeding a child may lower a woman?s risk of developing Metabolic Syndrome, a condition linked to heart disease and diabetes in women, according to a Kaiser Permanente study that was published today online ahead of print and will appear in the February issue of Diabetes, a journal of the American Diabetes Association (link:

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