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How Breastfeeding Protects Women's Health Throughout Their Lives
The Psychoneuroimmunology of Human Lactation
Book description
Researchers are disccovering that breastfeeding is more protective of maternal health than previously imagined and that it dramatically lowers women's risk of cardiovascular disease, metabolic syndrome, and diabetes during middle and old age--common causes of premature mortality for women.
Psychoneuroimmunology is an emerging, interdisciplinary science that considers the ways in which the human mind and the immune system interact and influence each other. Over the past 40 years, a body of evidence clearly shows that stress and coping may produce changes in immunity. These changes can result in health effects that contribute to disease.
In this monograph, authors Maureen Groer, RN, Ph.D., FAAN and Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, Ph.D., IBCLC, FAPA describe:
Why breastfeeding protects maternal health
- The human stress response and how it relates to health
- The emerging field of psychoneuroimmunology
- The pregnancy and postpartum on the immune system
- Lactational stress resistance
- Breastfeeding and immunity
This monograph provides the latest evidence on how breastfeeding is the biological norm for mother and baby, and how artificial feeding puts mothers at risk for health problems throughout their lives.
2011, Hale Publishing
ISBN 13: 978-0-9833075-4-9
By Maureen Groer & Kathleen Kendall-Tackett
Review from the International Lactation Consultant Association
