Findings from a new study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggest that new mothers who breastfeed for a full year, or longer, can dramatically reduce their risk of diabetes. The study conducted by Dr. Alison Stuebe, and her team of researchers from the Brigham and Women's hospital in Boston, studied 150,000 breastfeeding women for 15-years prior to their last birth. They found that nursing a baby reduces a woman's risk of diabetes by 15-percent. Stuebe says that, "Each year a woman breastfed, her risk of diabetes was reduced by 15 percent. [If] a woman had 2 children [and] breastfed for 2 years, our data suggests that she may reduce her risk of diabetes by nearly a third."
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