Many women know that breast-feeding is better for their babies than bottle feeding.
It promotes bonding between mother and baby, and breast milk provides more nutrients and immunities than commercial baby formula does. But what most women don't know is that breast-feding may offer women protection against breast cancer. As early as the beginning of this century, English researchers, backed by premenopausal in this analysis, and lactation was measured by the cumulative number of months of breast-feeding from all pregnancies. Results showed breast cancer risk lowered as the length of lactation increased. Since then, the importance of a woman's reproductive history on her risk of developing breast cancer has been widely recognized.