Bottle-fed babies 'face higher risk of heart death'  Bottle-fed
babies 'at higher heart risk'  Decades of bottle-feeding babies
may have left a costly legacy, in both human and financial
terms, of a generation of adults at higher risk of death and
disability from heart disease and stroke than they should be,
according to research published today.  The paper, published in
the Lancet, one of the world's leading medical journals,
establishes beyond doubt that breastfed babies become healthier
adults.  The study, which has run for 20 years, found that
babies given breastmilk became adults with cholesterol levels on
average 14% lower than bottle-fed babies.  Breastfeeding babies,
say the authors, could save many lives. A 10% reduction in
cholesterol would cut cardiovascular disease by a quarter. At
present it affects 10.7% of the UK population, which is more
than 5 million people. It could reduce deaths by 13-14%, saving
over 30,000 lives a year in this country alone.  "It is quite
possible that hundreds of thousa