Breastfeeding Can Prevent Breast Cancer

Breastfeeding is not only beneficial for the baby, but also for the mother. In a study hosted in Canada, breastfeeding is more than a year to effectively prevent against breast cancer. The study also mentions that breastfeeding more or less a year can cut the chances of breast cancer in women even with a family history of breast cancer suffered.

For researchers, women with a history of breast cancer have a three to four times the risk of developing breast cancer and breastfeeding will be a natural way to reduce this risk.

Research conducted by the Women's Research Institute in Ontario, Canada, found that women who carry the BRCA1 gene (gene history of breast cancer) only has a 32 percent chance of having cancer.

As quoted by The Telegraph (21/3), one of the researchers, Dr. Steven Narod said the findings reinforce the protective benefits of breastfeeding as a baby's immune system, even for the mother though.