Is it really a big surprise that human milk is optimal for human development?
A new study by researchers from Brown University finds more evidence that breastfeeding is good for babies' brains and showed that breastfeeding alone produced better brain development than a combination of breastfeeding and formula, which produced better development than formula alone. "Quiet" MRI images, taken while children were asleep, showed that infants who were exclusively breastfed for at least three months had enhanced development in key parts of the brain compared to the others.
More info: http://news.brown.edu/pressreleases/2013/06/breastfeeding
Has anybody with a scientific reputation doubted that human milk is the best for babies?
ReplyDeletePeter Rohleder Human milk is wonderful for babies! Cows' milk is strongly linked to cancer and of course obesity, since it's meant for calves. Reference- China Study.
ReplyDeleteThere's an awesome book titled "Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History" by Florence Williams that explains the benefits and harms of modern breast feeding. Seems to conclude that breast feeding for a few months is safe, but after that the toxins that mothers shed from the environment into the infant become dangerously concentrated in the child.
ReplyDeleteKevin Tourtellotte That makes sense. I think that for many farm animals it is crucial to their development that they get a mother's milk for the first 5 days? and then the milk changes and I am told it is safe for them to be weened. My information on this is from farmers so it may be somewhat biased since of course they want the milk for resale so the sooner the babies are weened the more profit.
ReplyDeleteCow milk has been correlated to early diabetes in children if consumed before age 1. But also I was talking about the shedding of harmful chemicals like flame retardants and estrogen mimicking chems found throughout a developed industrial world. They are literally inescapable today, and Williams explains that even with a very harsh control of ones diet can we even bring the numbers down at all... But certainly not out of dangerous levels. Read the book it's really good.
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ReplyDeleteGreat, you mean aside from that Puss I presume, which is one thing we only escaped since integrity is not quite dead everywhere. What about the antibiotics, I have a unique view point, I would get a blistered torso rash if I ate a couple of eggs depending on the antibiotic.. I hope I can find it on line, these poor eyes are not what they once were :) Thanks Kevin!