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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 obesitythe __ 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. | 
