A study revealed that baby nursing or breast feeding your baby for at least a year can decrease the risks of acquiring breast cancer by five percent. If you continue the habit for more than two years, then the risks is further reduced to fifty percent.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Data Bank on BreastFeeding, despite the positive outcome of the study – only one out of four women knew about this. In another study, about 44 percent of babies were breastfed.
In China, women tend to breastfeed their children longer than those in Western countries. This resulted to reduced incidence of breast cancer by up to 63 percent in the span of six years.
For baby girls, breastfeeding is beneficial too. According to the study, the milk that they get from their mothers can aid in supporting their immune system thus reducing the dangers of cancer when they grow up.
Baby nursing is beneficial to both the mother and baby because estrogen, a female hormone, is suppressed. It has been discovered that cancer cells are at times dependent on estrogen in order to grow. This means, if estrogen is inhibited, then so does the cancer cells, if there’s any.
