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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
3.A.against B. towards C. onto D. upon
4.A.forms B. cases C. terms D. places
5.A.two B. four C. three D. five
6.A.slowly B. quickly C. strongly D. obviously
7.A.which B. that C. something D. anything
8.A.various B. heart C. cardiovascular D. multiple
9.A.who B. such C. when D. taken
10.A.thoughts B. findings C. viewpoints D.breakthroughs
11.A.surveyed B. interviewed C. handled D. breastfed
12.A.despite B. warning C. regardless D. needful
13.A.smaller B. greater C. faster D. worse
14.A.true B. right C. proper D. same
15.A.later B. after C. late D. ago
