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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 growth 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 2 1 6 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 14一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 1 6 years __15__,”Lucas said.
詞匯:
breastfeeding n.母乳喂養(yǎng)
cardiovascular adi.(病等)心血管的
allergy n.變態(tài)反應(yīng);過敏性
cholesterol n.膽固醇
diabetes n.糖尿病
obesity n.肥胖
marker n.標識,標志
注釋:
1. nutritional baby formulas-有營養(yǎng)的配制嬰兒喂養(yǎng)奶
練習(xí):
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