The American Center for Cancer Research on Breastfeeding
The American Center for Cancer Research has just released the new study on diet and cancer and includes specific recommendations to breastfeed--and be breastfed! The breastfeeding summary: BREASTFEEDING Mothers to breastfeed; children to be breastfed! PUBLIC HEALTH GOAL The majority of mothers to breastfeed exclusively, for six months PERSONAL RECOMMENDATION Aim to breastfeed infants exclusively2 up to six months and continue with complementary feeding thereafter3 1 Breastfeeding protects both mother and child 2 'Exclusively' means human milk only, with no other food or drink, including water 3 In accordance with the UN Global Strategy on Infant and Young Child Feeding SUMMARY Justification The evidence on cancer as well as other diseases shows that sustained, exclusive breastfeeding is protective for the mother as well as the child. This is the first major report concerned with the prevention of cancer to make a recommendation specifically on breastfeeding, to prevent breast c...