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There is also an interesting problem with making this discourse about
breastfeeding as the norm.
If a women doesn't ever get pregnant, and give birth, what are her rates
of cancer compared to women who (a) get pregnant, (b) get pregnant and
births and (c) get pregnant and births and breastfeed.
Realistically, there are two categories to discuss: women who get
cancer, and mothers who get cancer.
Breastfeeding is the baseline for mothers who get cancer. But it's not
the baseline for women-who-are-not-mothers who get cancer. Having
babies, may be its own baseline... but that's another one entirely!
Morgan Gallagher
Jacquie Nutt wrote:
> Causality has to be carefully tested (remember the recent "research
> finding" that ran something like *people who had lots of ear
> infections as children were more likely to end up with diabetes*).
> There have been six recent articles on statistics on the BBC.
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7605118.stm See
> particularly Lesson 5: Causality
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7592579.stm
>
> I don't mean to be flippant - I DO believe that not-breastfeeding is
> associated with higher incidences of cancers. I have a hard time,
> though, believing that more-than-a-few pregnancies can improve a
> woman's health. Would be interested to hear of research otherwise.
>
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