Breast-feeding may benefit a woman's heart.

Moral of the story: Again, another benefit to breast-feeding.

Source: AMA Morning Rounds 12/22/09

Breast-feeding may benefit a woman's heart.

HealthDay (12/21, Gordon) reported that breast-feeding may help protect a woman's heart, according to research scheduled to be published in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Investigators, "in a study of nearly 300 women," employed "two imaging techniques -- electron beam tomography and ultrasound -- to assess the health of the women's blood vessels." The researchers "found that 32 percent of the women who had not breast-fed had coronary artery calcification, compared with 17 percent of the breast-feeding moms."