“If you can, breastfeed.”
An abstract from the newly published European Code Against Cancer 4th Edition: Breastfeeding and Cancer states that breastfeeding reduces breast cancer risk by 2% for 5 months. Risk is reduced the longer a woman breastfeeds, and her lifetime duration is cumulative; an example is the woman who breastfeeds 3 children for 4 months has a.. read more →
Breastfeeding outside the home still not tolerated.
A mother posted a story on Facebook about breastfeeding her baby in a restaurant. A diner in the restaurant took a photograph of her nursing and posted that on Facebook and Instagram along with derogatory and shaming comments. His comments triggered an onslaught of harassing and outraged responses to the photograph. The diner did not.. read more →
“Trust me” said the doctor. “It’s perfectly safe.”
Between 1920 and 1960, thousands of infants were irradiated to treat enlarged thymus glands. Doctors were hoping to prevent status lymphaticus (“hyperplasia of the lymphatic tissue formerly believed to be a cause of sudden death in infancy and childhood but now no longer recognized as a genuine pathological entity.” http://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/status%20lymphaticus ) and suffocation. Radiation was believed to.. read more →
Where does obesity start?
This morning’s feed contains an article “5 factors that make you pack on pounds.” As obesity is epidemic, the public needs to know that antibiotics and growth enhancing drugs fed to farm animals, endocrine disrupting chemicals, artificial sweeteners and aggressive marketing of junk food to children are contributing factors. http://eatlocalgrown.com/article/13703-factors-that-make-you-gain-weight.html So is a lack of physical.. read more →
Little girls learn what they see.
Children learn all the time. They learn by living with their parents, by watching TV and movies, by being with their friends and peers, and through play. Childhood observation and play makes adult activities easier. Having spent hours in a car as a child, I already had some idea of what to do before I ever.. read more →
WTF?
Fracking is devouring the earth. In a quest for oil, natural gas released by fracking is being burned. The fires from our burning planet are seen from space ships. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/at-night-giant-fields-of-burning-natural-gas-make-north-dakota-visibile-from-space-2533561/?no-ist “The government has known for years that oil deposits lay a couple miles beneath North Dakota farms, but it was only until fracking technologies recently developed that.. read more →