Evaluating your likely current (and near future) state of health means taking into account the risk factors — such as breastfeeding — that affect you. Our medical diagnosis tool, The Analyst™, identifies major risk factors by asking the right questions.
Are you currently nursing (breastfeeding) a child?
Possible responses:
→ Don't know→ No → Yes, but unable to produce enough milk for 1 child → Yes, successfully nursing 1 child → Yes, successfully nursing 2 or more children |
If zinc intake is chronically low, breastfeeding further increases the risk of zinc deficiency in the mother due to the greater need for zinc during lactation.