Breastfeeding reduces postpartum weight retention
- 1 December 2008
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier BV in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
- Vol. 88 (6), 1543-1551
- https://doi.org/10.3945/ajcn.2008.26379
Abstract
Background: Weight gained during pregnancy and not lost postpartum may contribute to obesity in women of childbearing age.Keywords
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