{"id":29021,"date":"2016-09-29T23:49:05","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T23:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/breastfeeding-good-for-mothers-too\/"},"modified":"2016-09-29T23:49:03","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T23:49:03","slug":"breastfeeding-good-for-mothers-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/breastfeeding-good-for-mothers-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Breastfeeding good for mothers too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{We have all been made to believe that breastfeeding is good for a young baby, but according to researchers from Harvard Medical School and the Cambridge Health Alliance, breastfeeding is not only good for children, but also for their mothers, providing more health benefits and preventing more maternal diseases than previously known.}<\/p>\n<p>According to a new study published online in Maternal &#038; Child Nutrition, breastfeeding for a total of one year and exclusively for six months \u2014 could protect babies and their mums from premature death.<\/p>\n<p>According to the study\u2019s lead author Dr. Melissa Bartick, assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Cambridge Health Alliance: \u201cBreastfeeding is far more beneficial in preventing disease and reducing costs than previously estimated,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe results should compel all hospitals to develop programs aimed at helping new moms learn to breastfeed their babies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To conduct the study, the researchers modelled two groups. One was an \u201coptimal\u201d group, in which the majority of moms breastfed as recommended. That group was compared with a \u201csuboptimal\u201d group, in which moms breastfed at current rates in the US, which are less than the recommended guidelines. Using existing research and government data, they projected the rates and costs of diseases that breastfeeding is known to reduce, along with the rates and costs of early deaths from those diseases.<\/p>\n<p>Children\u2019s diseases included in the evaluation were acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, ear infections, Crohn\u2019s disease, ulcerative colitis, gastrointestinal infections, lower respiratory tract infections, obesity, necrotizing enterocolitis and SIDS. For mothers, the study included breast cancer, pre-menopausal ovarian cancer, diabetes, hypertension and heart attacks.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-15378 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/breastfeeding.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{We have all been made to believe that breastfeeding is good for a young baby, but according to researchers from Harvard Medical School and the Cambridge Health Alliance, breastfeeding is not only good for children, but also for their mothers, providing more health benefits and preventing more maternal diseases than previously known.} According to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[75],"byline":[2483],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-29021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-homenews","byline-elcrema"],"bylines":[{"id":2483,"name":"ELCREMA","slug":"elcrema","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2483,"name":"ELCREMA","slug":"elcrema","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29021"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=29021"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=29021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}