Celina:

My head and heart are resounding with everything you said re the health
of people in their 80's and 90's. My mom is 89 (soon to be 90) and my
dad is 91 and we kids often joke that they have more energy than the 4
of us put together!! When my Mom and I go for a walk, I ask her to slow
down because she walks faster than I do!! We are very lucky and can
learn a lot from my parents' generation about how to eat, how to
live,... And, of course,  how to feed babies!!

Thanks for the email!!

Elaine Mazgelis, RD, IBCLC
Cambridge-Somerville WIC
Massachusetts
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Date:    Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:59:43 -0400
From:    Celina Dykstra <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: just have to rant... :>)

My personal rant as I struggle with being home sick again! 

I think we are just now seeing the long term effects of not
breastfeeding infants in this culture! These chronic candida infections,
chronic immune system disorders, metabolic syndrome, etc.. etc. etc..
IMHO is the backlash of our generations of infants being fed substandard
diets devoid of Long, medium and short chain fatty acids, vital
nutrients and trace minerals and complex immune components as well as
hormones and pre pro hormones.. seen in  this "epidemic" of chronic
fatigue, hypothyroidism, "adrenal fatigue", type 2 diabetes, and on and
on and on... 

The SAD (standard american diet) is definitely a contributor, but
generally, a person who has all their systems functioning will not fall
into that rut so easily - look at what most 80 year old people are
eating and it is not the SAD! Take an infant, get it hooked on high
fructose corn syrup as a carb source and that infant will become a child
who craves high fructose corn syrup... 

The photos on kellymom  of the cell size and structure of breastmilk
compared to homogenized and pasteurized cow's milk and formula say it
all - the "experts" made a BIG mistake (unless, of course, their primary
purpose was to conduct a mass experiment on substitute infant foods and
their long term effects...)

When one reads about the process used to ensure sterility of infant
formula, one can see that all those EFA's and probiotics don't stand a
chance of surviving... so whoopdeedoo that they are added.. question is
"are they still viable?"
I resent the fact that these corporations and our government are allowed
to constantly undermine breastfeeding and then claim that they are
striving to improve the health of infants.. 

All that said, I have to thank my parents for making their own
sauerkraut and naturally fermented pickles and teaching me to do the
same, and for being too poor to buy "junk food", for growing their own
vegetables and fruit, making us take cod liver oil and for always
cooking from scratch. My 86 yr. old mother still makes her own soft
cheese, brined pickles and can rarely be found in the house during
gardening season.. or when she's off helping other people... She often
says how sad she is that she didn't have enough milk to breastfeed her
babies - you know that hospital schedule from the 50's... baby comes to
mom every 4 hours during the day for feeding and not at all at night...
no wonder! We were fed the standard home made formula of the day -
Evaporated cow's milk and corn syrup.... a recipe for a global health
disaster!

just had to vent.. thanks for listening :>)

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