> Professor Alan Lucas and his team have found that young adults who had been
> breastfed for more than four months have stiffer arteries, an early marker
> of heart disease, than people who had been bottle fed or breast fed for a
> shorter time.

i wonder who pays his salary & funded the studies...this smells like a
nest(**) of rats. seems to me that the opposite had already been
"prooven" already (ie that heart disease is less common in bf babies who
are bf longer)...

> Although the researchers have not established the mechanism by which breast
> milk could lead to arterial stiffness, one theory they have put forward is
> that breast milk was not meant to get babies started in life and then take
> up a high-fat Western diet.

what the...???  i can see the prob. with high fat western diets, but to
so obviously slander bf just before that DEFINATELY stinks of the
wording of some company or another that has invested interest in moms
quitting bf as soon as possible...  why not just say that our diets are
too high fat & leave it at that, rather than harp on bf as being what
was "not meant to get babies started on life"?

literally fuming...
fio nak

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