Sentences with phrase «breastfeeding protects against obesity»

From the abstract: CONCLUSIONS: Initial breastfeeding protects against obesity in later life.

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Studies show breastfeeding lowers the risk of obesity, cancer, and chronic diseases — many of which disproportionately impact African American women — in mothers, as well as helps protect children against a host of ailments, including respiratory infections, asthma and childhood leukemia.

While the benefits of breastfeeding are well known — breastfed babies tend to be better protected against rapid weight gain and obesity, among other things — the reality is that 60 percent of American infants are exposed to infant formula by four months of age either as a sole source of nutrition or in combination with breastmilk.

• Breastmilk contains special antibodies which help protect your baby against infections • Breastmilk is your baby's natural food, it's easily digested and enough on its own for the first 6 months • Breastfed babies are less likely to have eczema and diabetes or high blood pressure and obesity later on • Breastfeeding helps you and your baby to get to know each other • Breastfeeding means you'll return to your pre-pregnancy weight quicker • Breastfeeding helps give you stronger bones in later life and helps protect against breast and ovarian cancer • Breastfed babies are not as windy as bottle - fed babies • Nappies are not as smelly!

Breastfeeding has many benefits that include protecting the baby against inflammatory diseases of the gut, lungs or ears, and longer term health problems such as diabetes and obesity, improved cognitive outcomes, and protecting the mother against breast cancer.

Breastfeeding not only nourishes babies but also results in fewer infections, promotes brain development resulting in intelligent babies, protects against diabetes and obesity.

Breastfeeding is the ultimate nutrition because it supplies all the necessary nutrients for proper development, protects your baby against illness and disease, it fights against allergies and obesity, it's easily digested, and breast milk caters to your baby's specific needs through their saliva!

Many epidemiologic studies consistently show that breastfeeding not only provides optimal bio-avaiable nutrients, but also protects against diarrhoeal, respiratory and other diseases [11][12][13][14], including the non-communicable disease of obesity in later life [15][16][17] and leads to improved cognitive and psychosocial outcomes [18][19][20].

Breastfeeding may protect against obesity because breastfed babies learn to self - regulate their food intake.

Research also suggests that breastfeeding may help to protect against obesity, diabetes, sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), asthma, eczema, colitis, and some cancers.

We've known that breastfeeding infants may protect against subsequent obesity for over 30 years, but why?