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July 10th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda TUESDAY, July 10 (HealthDay News) — How many children a woman
bears and whether or not she breast-feeds them may affect her weight
decades later, according to new research.
Childbearing is linked with an increased risk of obesity, but
breast-feeding cuts that risk by about 1 percent for every six months of
nursing, the researchers found.
“Women who are in their childbearing years can take from our and other
research that breast-feeding is good for them and their children and that
the benefits for their own health may be extremely long-lasting,” said
researcher Kirsty Bobrow, a clinical researcher at the University of
Oxford in England.
The study is published July 10 in the International Journal of
Obesity.
While the reduction in body mass index (BMI) associated with
breast-feeding is small for an individual woman, it is substantial in
terms of obesity-related diseases across the population, Bobrow said. BMI
is a measurement of body size based on height and weight.
For the study, Bobrow and her colleagues evaluated information on about
740,000 postmenopausal women participating in Britain’s Million Women
Study between 1996 and 2001. Their average age was 58.
All reported their height, weight, childbearing history and other data.
They also answered questions about breast-feeding.
Average BMI inched upward with the number of children a woman had, the
researchers found. (A normal BMI is 18.5 to 24.9. A BMI of 30 or more is
considered obese.)
Among those who had no children, average BMI was 25.6 — slightly
overweight. For women with four or more deliveries, average BMI was
27.2.
Among the women who had given birth, 70 percent had breast-fed and did
so for an average of 7.7 months. The researchers found that for every six
months of breast-feeding, average BMI was about 1 percent lower. They
called this a “relatively small, but important, persistent reduction.”
The study doesn’t prove that breast-feeding will make you slimmer; it
merely shows an association between the two. However, the link held even
when the researchers took into account smoking, physical activity and
other factors that can affect weight.
Researchers have several hypotheses about why breast-feeding helps
control weight over the long term. One is the so-called “reset”
hypothesis, Bobrow said. It says that breast-feeding ”may be involved in
re-setting various metabolic control centers in the brain after
childbirth,” Bobrow explained.
Erica Gunderson, a research scientist with the Kaiser Permanente
Northern California division of research in Oakland, Calif., said the
research is unique partly because of the many women studied. “This type of
cross-sectional study has never been accomplished with this sample size,”
she said.
That’s a definite strength of the research, she noted. But it would
have been helpful to know the women’s BMI earlier in life, she added.
For women who have not yet given birth, the study suggests that it’s
important to consider breast-feeding and to ask your doctor how much
weight you should gain.
Getting advice about nutrition is a good idea, too, Gunderson said.
“When you get pregnant, get very good advice about what to eat,” she
suggested.
More information
To learn more about breast-feeding, visit the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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