We often talk on the blog frequently about the benefits of breast milk, both for the baby and for the mother.
As several investigations have shown, pregnancies as well as breastfeeding the baby reduces the mother's risk of developing breast cancer during premenopause and also in younger women.
However, new research also relates breastfeeding to a lower risk of breast cancer in women who have been breastfed as a child.
The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Wisconsin (United States) and published in the journal Epidemiology, indicates that women who had been breastfed in childhood had a 17% lower risk of breast cancer compared to those that had been fed only with artificial milk.
A curiosity of the investigation is that this reduction was not significant when it came to women who were the oldest daughters, observing that the order of birth influenced decreasing the probability of breast cancer as more older siblings had.
Research will continue on this advantage that girls who have been breastfed would have to determine whether the time during which they were fed breast milk and the mother's age has some special influence.
In any case, one more reason to choose breastfeeding.
