It might counteract susceptibility to specific form of breast cancer: Study
(NEWSER) - If you’re a black woman with plans to have a lot of kids, you might want to breastfeed them. Why? Because African-American women are especially susceptible to a specific form of breast cancer that isn’t linked to estrogen or progesterone levels—unless, a new study suggests, they breastfeed. After tracking 47,000 black women for 13 years, researchers discovered that those who had more children were more susceptible to the cancer than those who had one or none, but that breastfeeding counteracted much of that risk, the LA Times reports. More»
