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Nursing not the cause of saggy breasts |
| Published: November 4, 2007, 11:02 am |
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Filed under: Lifestyle, Breastfeeding, Current Studies and ResearchBreastfeeding does a lot of things to a woman's body. It stimulates contractions that cause the uterus shrink back to original size, burns up to 500 calories a day, and might even protect against cancers but there's one thing a study says nursing does not do: cause breasts to sag. Women coming in for augmentations or breast lift to correct sagging blamed on breastfeeding were the inspiration University of Kentucky plastic surgeon Brian Rinker's research project to look for a connection between nursing and breast droopage. In interviews of 132 women over an eight year period, Rinker's study showed no difference in sagging between breastfeeding women and those who did not. The main factors that affected the breasts in his small sample were age, smoking status and the number of pregnancies a woman has had. Rinker hopes his findings might ease worries mothers may have that nursing might on the appearance of their [ Full article ] |
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