Breastfeeding is well known to boost an infant’s health, and now it seems it may be good for the mother as well.
In a study of 96,648 nurses who gave birth between 1986 and 2002, those who had spend at least two years of their lives breastfeeding were 19 per cent less likely to suffer a heart attack than those who hadn’t breastfed at all. The difference was independent of any of the usual risk factors for heart disease, such as family history, diet or exercise levels.
One possible explanation, says study leader Alison Steube of Harvard Medical School,…
