Breastfeeding can reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease later in life according to a study of Chinese women.
Sanne A. E. Peters, Ling Yang, Yu Guo, Yiping Chen, Zheng Bian, Jianwei Du, Jie Yang, Shanpeng Li, Liming Li, Mark Woodward, Zhengming Chen and the China Kadoorie Biobank Collaboration Group. Breastfeeding and the Risk of Maternal Cardiovascular Disease: A Prospective Study of 300 000 Chinese Women. Journal of the American Heart Association. 2017;6:e006081
http://jaha.ahajournals.org/content/6/6/e006081