Breast milk is the best food a mother can ever give to her child. Breast milk contains all the nutritional values in it to help the child to grow quickly and develop better immune system. It’s widely known that breast milk is good for the infants, but the latest research proves that breastfeeding is good for the mothers’ health as well.

Now this research has shown mothers who breastfeed their babies for relatively longer times are less likely to develop the type 2 diabetes. This means, mothers who don’t breastfeed their babies are likely to develop the diabetes risk twice more than that of the mothers who breastfeed.

By breastfeeding babies, mothers will lose weight they have added during the pregnancy. If a women stop breastfeeding their babies, the chances are high that she retains the fat in the body that was added during the pregnancy.

Often fat is linked to many obesity related diseases. Excess weight is one of the key causes of diabetes in people. So, when moms breastfeed their babies, they are less likely to develop the risk of diabetes.

The American Academy of Pediatrics suggests that new mothers should breastfeed their babies for at least 6 months. According to the surveys, only 14% of the new mothers breastfeed their babies for 6 months or more!

This research was led by Dr. Eleanor Bimla Schwarz from the University of Pittsburgh.