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Across 1. Breastfeeding is associated with decreased ______________ response to stressors, improved moods, and enhanced physical and mental health 3. Breastfeeding is associated with reducing the risk of ________________ heart disease in both the breastfeeding mothers and the children they breastfeed 8. "Mothers who do not breastfeed their infants seem to be at increased risk of ..._________ changes associated with future cardiovascular disease. retained gestational weight gain, type 2 diabetes, myocardial infarction and the metabolic syndrome," all of which increase the risk of heart disease 9. A cluster of risk factors that make heart disease and diabetes more likely was rarer among women who reported breastfeeding their babies. The longer they breastfed during the first nine months, the less likely they were to be diagnosed with (2 Words) 11. An Australian study demonstrated a link between children breastfed for 3 months or longer and a reduced risk of 13. Both ________ and diastolic blood pressures fall during a breastfeeding session for mom

Down 2. Swedish study found that women who breastfed for 13 months and up were half as likely to get ____________________ as those who never did. (2 Words) 4. Evidence suggests that formula-fed infants tend to have higher _____________ overall and less of the "good" cholesterol, HDL, than those who are breastfed 5. In postmenopausal women, increased duration of lactation has been linked with lower prevalence of hypertension and _____________ disease 6. In a European study, children who were breastfed had lower (2 Words) 7. Breastfeeding for at least four months enhances this in children (2 Words) 10. breastfeeding reduced the risk of this by 50% at all ages throughout infancy 12. A study in Finland found that children breastfed for 5-7 months had a reduced risk of adult