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Nursing students at the UPMC Altoona Birth Center examine patient records on Tuesday.
Mirror photo by Bill Kibler
UPMC Altoona on Tuesday celebrated its support of breastfeeding, having recently earned a Pennsylvania Department of Health designation as a Keystone 10 facility by demonstrating that it follows the core tenets of a breastfeeding promotion program.
Breastfeeding is a natural practice with numerous benefits for children and mothers that civilization turned away from, starting about 200 years ago but that has reasserted itself over the past four decades, according to online information.
Research has shown that benefits for the child include a 50 percent reduction of the risk of sudden infant death syndrome, provision of antibodies that protect against illness, reduced risk of asthma and allergies, reduced risk of obesity and a better chance of higher intelligence; while benefits for mothers include reduced risk of breast and ovarian cancer,
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