Breastfeeding Can Cut Cardiovascular Risk
Breastfeeding can reduce the risk of a heart attack or stroke later in life and could prevent hundreds of_____1_____of deaths each year, researchers said on Friday.
Babies who are breastfed have fewer childhood infections and allergies and are less_____2_____to obesity. British scientists have now shown that breastfeeding and slow grown in the first weeks and months of life has a protective effect_____3_____cardiovascular disease.
“Diets that promote more rapid growth put babies at risk many years later in_____4_____” of raising their blood pressure, raising their cholesterol and increasing their tendency to diabetes and obesity—the_____5_____main risk factors for stroke and heart attack,” said Professor Alan Lucas of the Institute of Child Health in London.
“Our evidence suggests that the reason why breast-fed babies do better is because they grow more_____6_____in the early weeks.”
Lucas said the effects of breastfeeding on blood pressure and cholesterol later in life are greater than_____7_____adults can do to control the risk factors for cardiovascular disease, other than taking drugs.
An estimated 17 million people die of_____8_____disease, particularly heart attack and strokes, each year, according to the World Health Organization.
Lucas and his colleagues compared the health of 216 teenagers_____9_____as babies had either been breastfed or given different nutritional baby formulas. They reported their_____10_____ in The Lancet medical journal.
The teenagers who had been_____11_____ had a 14-percent lower ratio of bad to good cholesterol and lower concentrations of a protein that is a marker for cardiovascular disease risk.
The researchers also found that_____12_____ of the child’s weight at birth, the faster the infants grew in the early weeks and months of life, the_____13_____ was their later risk of heart disease and stroke. The effect was the_____14_____ for both boys and girls.
“The more human milk you have in the newborn period, the lower your cholesterol level is, the lower your blood pressure is 16 years_____15_____ ,”Lucas said.
1.A.hundreds B. thousands C. millions D. numbers
2.A.likely B. possible C. easy D. prone