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Wow. You wonder how our supposedly "scientific" age can get it so wrong so long, except that when you know that corporate profits are behind it you no longer wonder. NOTHING could be better for a human baby than a human mother's milk, and that speaks only of nutrition for genetic potential, and not of the importance of cuddling & kissing and loving on that baby. Yet millions of American mothers were guilt-manipulated into bottle feeding, and millions more poor 3rd world mothers.
Worse yet, on substitute, soy milk, contains phytoestrogens that suppress baby boys' sexual development.
Any cattle husbandman from 50 years ago or today on the cutting edge of the New Agriculture (low on inputs, high on nature) could have told you. You want mama cows with HIGH milk fat content and high milk output so that calf gets the food he needs to maximize his genetic potential. You may be a beef farmer, but underneath it all you're a dairyman. And that calf needs to STAY on that mama as long as possible to maximize that first growth. Humans are not bovines, but they are mammals, with the same needs.
I thank God for science and the advances in human health & prosperity in the last 100 years, but I have no time at all for Junk Science that promotes political agendas or corporate profits or fancies itself wiser than creation & the Creator.
I was intrigued when I heard about this study today out of Brazil and how the scientists were talking about a chemical reason for the higher IQ as opposed to a "bonding" explanation. My two babies didn't give up the boob completely until they were about 2 years old. Had they only quit when they were 1 year old they would be both SMART & RICH instead of just SMART !!!!
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DeleteWhat a beautiful painting, Brock - don't you just love those little coconut heads ;)
ReplyDeletePurdy' little thing. :)
DeleteAlot of women have difficulty breastfeeding, and the stupid people in the hospital that are supposed to help you, usually end up making it worse. Making new mothers nervous which makes it impossible for milk letdown. Leading to lack of confidence and an 'I quit' mentality.
ReplyDeleteTwo of my friends recently had their first and second baby and they were both dragged through the wringer by "well meaning" nurses and hospital staff who act like everyone is a moron and can't be trusted with their own offspring.
Of course there are many people who have the IQ of a turnip, but leave them alone, they will either figure it out, or..
it's amazing we've survived as a species as long as we have.
related:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/anonymous-threat-made-to-new-zealand-dairy-products-1425957261
Imagine that, protesting the killing of pest animals by threatening to kill humans. Sounds like terrorism to me.
it's amazing we've survived as a species as long as we have.
DeleteWe got along OK until PC came into vogue. :) Thanks.
Colostrum.
ReplyDeleteThe importance of colostrum isn't even stressed anymore. Especially with the high number of babies born by Cesarean today. Your entrance into the world through the birth canal is your first introduction to microbes that inhabit your guts. This is your immune system.
It's no wonder everyone is sick all the time.
Thanks.
DeleteI went to "The Moneychanger" and couldn't find mention of the study. What did I do wrong? I wanted to send it to my daughter to encourage her to keep breast feeding as long as she could.
ReplyDeleteThose were just his words from his daily letter, but it's all over the news.
Deletehttp://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/mar/18/brazil-longer-babies-breastfed-more-achieve-in-life-major-study
I think there was also a cultural perception that took place in the first part of the 1900's that advanced the idea if you breast fed you were poor white trash. My mother was born in 1937 and she was horrified when I decided to breast feed my children and she asked me why I would ever want to do that. But maybe that was just her, she could never see the value of me messing up my kitchen to can peaches either. ;-)
ReplyDelete:) Here's who breast fed my mother.
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http://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.com/search?q=mammy
I still breast feed at 45. I at least try anyway.
ReplyDeleteGood deal! Mammy was around that age.
DeleteIf breast-feeding makes for intelligence and wealth, where's all the rich geniuses in sub-Saharan Africa?
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