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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．
词汇：
breastfeeding n．母乳喂养
cardiovascular adi．(病等)心血管的
allergy n．变态反应；过敏性
cholesterol n．胆固醇
diabetes n．糖尿病
obesity n．肥胖
marker n．标识，标志
注释：
1． nutritional baby formulas-有营养的配制婴儿喂养奶
练习：
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
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