Much research shows that breastfeeding provides short- and long-term health benefits for both mothers and their … children. However, few studies have yet investigated the factors which may promote or inhibit breastfeeding practices in Japan …. To fill this research gap, this paper uses data newly gathered in 2012 on breastfeeding initiation and duration for each …

and infant food with a view to the protection and promotion of breastfeeding and ensuring the proper use of infant foods …

, no gift is more precious than breastfeeding; yet barely one in three infants is exclusively breastfed during the first …

optimal breastfeeding is the single most effective preventive intervention for reducing infant mortality. …

breastfeeding is associated with substantial increases in high school GPA and in the probability of college attendance. Adding … improvements in cognitive ability and adolescent health may be important pathways through which breastfeeding affects long …

For some women leaking is little more than an occasional drop or two during breastfeeding; for others it may be copious …

The research on breastfeeding and breast cancer risk, it is clear that this has been a difficult area to study. If … breastfeeding does lower risk, the level of protection is small and depends on women breastfeeding for a long time. In countries …. Studies that have found that breastfeeding does lower breast cancer risk have also found that protection builds up over time …