In a message dated 6/10/01 10:30:00 AM Central Daylight Time,
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> --levels of contaminants in breast milk drop rapidly with
> breastfeeding duraction.  After six months, levels of organochlorines
> are 20 percent lower than those at birth.  One U.S. mother of twins
> who nursed for three years dropped her body burden of dioxins by 69
> percent.
>
> --first-born children receive more chemical contaminants than their
> later-born siblings, and older first-time mothers have higher levels
> of contaminants in their milk than younger first-time mothers.
>
Wow! Sandra.
So, will a breastfeeding mother eventually eliminate all contaminants from
her own body?
If she breastfeeds enough children, long enough, can she eliminate even newly
acquired contaminants?
I wonder what effects this would have on diseases like Alzheimer's and other
dysfunction of the brain which develop later in life.

Laura Wright
Jackson, MS

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