Breast feeding gain is lost at menopause?
Business Week reports on a study presented at the American Heart Association conference on cardiovascular health in San Francisco headling that “Breast-Feeding Helps Mom Stay Slimmer Later in Life”.
The study looked at mothers who averaged age 51 and had given birth at least 19 years ago. They found that on average they had waist circumferences that were of 2.6 inches smaller than mothers who had never breast-fed. They also found their waist-to-hip ratio was 4.7 percent higher but they don’t disclose what that WHR was. Since it is WHR and not waist measurement that is the marker for cardiovascular risk it seems a strange omission.
If you read through the report, it later states that “researchers didn’t find any statistically significant differences in belly fat in women who were in late perimenopause and menopause”.
So basically whatever if any benefits are there in the pre or early peri stages of menopause are lost.
