Breast-Feeding Reduces Breast Cancer Risk
Carl Lowe | Oct 22, 2012 | Comments 3 |
Breast-feeding reduces the risk for certain types of breast cancer, according to a study conducted at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. The study also found that having three or more children without breast-feeding was associated with an increased risk for what’s called estrogen receptor- and progesterone receptor- (ER/PR) negative breast cancer. ER/PR-negative breast cancer often affects younger women and has a poor prognosis.
“Women who had children but did not breast-feed had about 1.5 times the risk for ER/PR-negative breast cancer,” says researcher Meghan Work. “If women breast-fed their children, there was no increased risk for ER/PR-negative cancer. This is particularly important as breast-feeding is a modifiable factor that can be promoted and supported through health policy.”
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My mother breastfed both my sister and myself but she still got breast cancer at the age of 48…
Yes, I breast fed both of my sons for six months each, never took BC pills or HRT, never overweight, excercised EVERY day for years, don’t have a history of breast cancer in my family..guess what? I got breast cancer anyway! I beleive that the problem lies in the food we eat. Producers have been monkeying with our food esp animals since 1976. We just weren’t told what they were doing. Countries that don’t allow all the hormones and antibiotics in the meats, and all the preservatives,emulsifiers, coloring etc in their citizens” food have lower rates of ALL cancers!
Now that you know, grow your own as much a s possible and just don’t buy the crap they are trying to feed us. When it doesn’t sell anymore, they will stop it.
I think that breasts act as a filter as well as supplying nutrition, the breast filters toxins to prevent them from reaching the baby this leaves behind the cancer forming toxins within the breast.