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" Women who breastfeed their babies appear to be less likely to develop type-2 diabetes in later life. Research by scientists at the University of Pittsburgh looked at 2,233 women, aged 40 to 78. Just over half of the participants (56 per cent) had breastfed a baby for at least one month. The researchers discovered that women who had not breastfed were almost twice as likely to develop type-2 diabetes as those who had breastfed or never given birth. Publishing their findings in the American Journal of Medicine, the study authors noted that the trend was apparent, even when individuals&amp;#039; age, race, levels of exercise, alcohol consumption and smoking status had been taken into account. Dr Eleanor Bimla Schwarz, assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh, noted that the prevalence of type-2 diabetes has increased dramatically over the last 100 years. &amp;#039;Diet and exercise are widely known to impact the risk of type-2 diabetes, but few people realise that breastfeeding also reduces mothers&amp;#039; risk of developing the disease later in life by decreasing maternal belly fat,&amp;#039; she revealed. &amp;#039;Our study provides another good reason to encourage women to breastfeed their infants.&amp;#039; A large study published\u00A0in 2002\u00A0by Cancer Research UK found that breastfeeding lowered breast cancer risk by 4.3 per cent for every year of feeding. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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