Breast milk protects against cancer
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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The daily Australian newspaper reported that it was found quite reliable protection against cancer in women. Researchers claim that women who prefer their children to breast cancer risk a malignant cancerous tumor by seventy percent. In the process of developing new possible drugs that can fight cancer, scientists have found that milk feeding is useful not only for good health and well-being of the baby, but also for the nursing mother.
According to scientists, the longer the period of feeding the baby (or children) with the breast, the less the chance for a woman to be struck by an oncological disease. Breastfeeding almost destroys the risks of cancers and mammary glands, and ovaries. Experts suggest that the cause of the defensive reaction of the body is the delay in ovulation, which is caused by breastfeeding.
Doctors recommend not to give up breastfeeding, as this is one of the most important moments in the first communication between the mother and a young child. In addition, the composition of breast milk includes substances that help the further development of a small organism, antibodies that can prevent infectious diseases, nutrients that provide the necessary composition of the necessary vitamins.
A study conducted by Australian scientists oncologists once again shows the benefits of breastfeeding: after all, the nursing mother not only provides her baby with the necessary substances, but also involuntarily takes care of her health. Doctors believe that the longer the period of breastfeeding lasts, the safer the woman can feel. Malignant tumors in the ovaries and mammary glands will not be harmful to nursing mothers.
The experiment consisted of the following: Australian physicians selected about five hundred women suffering from ovarian cancer and the same number of healthy women. Researchers made sure that the initial data were approximately the same, as well as the age of the experimental girls. Then, detailed surveys were conducted on the way of life, habits, hobbies. A separate questionnaire was designed to study questions about motherhood: women were asked about whether they have children, the age of children, the methods of feeding and upbringing, and also about how much time they could give to feeding their own milk. It is known that it is not always possible to breastfeed, even if the desire is present.
According to the survey results, it became apparent that women who fed infants with breast milk for longer than one year had 60% less risk of contracting a malignant tumor in the ovary than those who had breastfed for less than six months. Most lucky women who have more than three children and are adherents of breastfeeding: for them, ovarian cancer poses little danger. The average feeding period for a mother of many children is more than 30 months, which means that she is automatically 92% less likely to develop cancerous tumors than a woman who neglects the natural feeding of a child.
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