►February 29, 2004 -
Facts on breast milk and breast-feeding - The Jakarta Post - "Breast milk is
not only the best food for baby but should be the only food in the first six
months of its life...'Breast-feeding can go on for two years or as long as both
parties still want to do it,' said pediatrician Utami Roesli from the Indonesian
Lactation Center...Research also shows that illnesses like infections of the
respiratory and digestive systems, meningitis and allergies are much higher with
formula milk consumption...Breast milk consumption can also prevent coronary
artery disease and ischaemic heart disease at a young age."
Comment: For some references concerning
breastfeeding and infectious disease, click
here.
►February 17, 2004 -
Breast-Feeding At Work - ADHS Promotes And Practices Policy - Arizona
Capitol Times - "As
a site supervisor and nutritionist with the Maricopa County Department of Public
Health, Ms. Ogden is determined to erase the stigma associated with
breast-feeding in the workplace. Shes not alone...The Arizona Department of
Health Services has initiated a breast-feeding program to address issues and
increase the practice though education, awareness and policy change. The program
promotes breast-feeding as the superior method of feeding infants and young
children in order to build their immunity to disease and help form strong,
straight teeth."
Comment: Kudos the Ms.
Ogden and the Arizona Department of Health!
February 9-15, 2004
none
selected this week
January 26 - February 8, 2004 (2 weeks combined
due to illness)
►January 14, 2004 - Magazine
Bares All, Has Shop Covering Up Cover - The Santa Fe New Mexican - "Increasing
the number of women who nurse their babies is a goal of the U.S. government. But
pictures of breast-feeding, which is as old as humankind and strongly
recommended for infant health, is apparently offensive to some...After receiving
several complaints about the latest issue of Mothering magazine, which shows a
nursing mother and contented baby, the Vitamin Cottage on Cerrillos Road covered
the offending breast with paper."
Comment: This
kind of thing is a big part of what's wrong with health in America. And at
a vitamin shop, of all places.
January 5-11, 2004
►January
11, 2004 -
Moms with HIV
encouraged to breastfeed -
www.startribune.com - "'You can't just say, "Don't breastfeed."
That's a death sentence for many babies. Fine, they won't get HIV, but they will
die of diarrhea,' said Jean Humphrey, who heads Zvitambo, a research project
funded in part by Canada that examines HIV and breastfeeding in Zimbabwe."
Comment: Call me crazy, but maybe even premature
infants who "cannot" breastfeed could be fed breast milk. And perhaps the
notion that infants need to "maximise weight gain in the first weeks of
life" should be reexamined if the method for accomplishing that is to feed
formula rather than breastmilk.
December 2003 -
Can breast-feeding or diet affect rates of atopic dermatitis? -
Breast-feeding is the best way to nourish infants, but it does not necessarily
prevent atopic dermatitis.
(requires registration) - journal
article (Infectious Diseases In Children)
November 24, 2003 - Breast Intentions -
Burger King has promised to welcome nursing women at their restaurants. If
only they could make their food as healthy as mother's milk - MSNBC
November 17-23, 2003
November 21, 2003 -
Burger King
Adopts Breast-Feeding Policy - Burger King Adopts Corporate Policy Allowing
Breast-Feeding Day Before 'Nurse-In' - AP via ABC News - "'We want to be a
family friendly place," said Rob Doughty, vice president for strategic
communications for Miami-based Burger King. "We want to be responsive to our
customers, and didn't know this was a big issue. Unfortunately in Utah, it went
directly to the press, and we didn't have a chance to take a look at it.'...He
said 20 states, including Utah, allow breast-feeding in public."
Breast-feeding
promotes wound healing
- Rat study may fuel breast-versus-bottle debate.
- Society for
Neuroscience Annual Meeting, New Orleans, November 2003 via Nature
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