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Breastfeeding helps Mom's heart

by Kristin Darguzas, Posted Feb 15th 2007 11:00AM

Here's an interesting side-effect to breastfeeding, one I hadn't heard before: women who breastfeed are 24% less likely to suffer a heart attack. That's a pretty astonishing statistic. 100,000 women who gave birth between 1986 and 2002 participated ...
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