Breastfeeding for a minimum of six months would help reduce the risk of liver disease

Breastfeeding your baby is something that has multiple benefits for both: you give him the best food he can receive during his first months or years of life, and you also help protect yourself from future illnesses or complications.

One of them, according to a new study, is liver disease, since it was found that breastfeeding for at least six months would help reduce the risk of suffering from it.

According to the study published in the Journal of Hepatology, breastfeeding one or more children for a minimum of six months, could help reduce the risk of the mother suffering from future liver diseasespecifically non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

As the name says, this disease is one in which fat accumulates in the liver in people who drink little or no alcohol. Although the exact cause is unknown, some medical problems such as obesity, metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes could raise the risk of suffering from it.

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The study in question analyzed and monitored the health and breastfeeding reports of 844 women every two and five years, for thirty years beginning in 1985. At the end of the study in which each one was followed for a minimum of 25 years, they had a CT scan of their abdomen, to analyze the levels of fat in the liver.

According to the results of the study, women who breastfed one or more children for more than six months had a lower risk of suffering from non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, compared to those who did not breastfeed or did so for a month only.

Women who were diagnosed with the disease after 25 years of follow-up, they also presented a higher body mass index, greater abdominal circumference, higher triglycerides and lower levels of "good" cholesterol.

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With this, breastfeeding adds another benefit to its list in terms of the health of mothers, as well as reduce the possibility of suffering from non-alcoholic fatty liver diseasePrevious studies have found that breastfeeding also helps reduce the risk of having a heart attack, of having breast cancer and of having hypertension after menopause.

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