
UNITARY METHOD – SIMPLIFIED
An ABACUS is an interesting and useful tool for teaching certain mathemetical concepts to a child. If you ae thinking of buying an abacus, perish the thought. You and your child can eaily make one at home.
Adult women who were breast-fed as infants may have a lower risk of developing breast cancer than those who were not breast-fed, unless they were first-born, study findings suggest.
"As a general group, women who reported they had been breast-fed in infancy had a 17 percent decrease in breast cancer risk," Hazel B. Nichols, who was involved in the study, told Reuters Health.
"However, we did not observe this reduction when we looked specifically among first-born women," said Nichols, of the University of Wisconsin, in Madison.