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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 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 216 teenagers_____9_____as babies had either been breastfed or given different nutritional baby formulas. They reported their_____10_____ in The Lancet medical journal. | 
