> "Breastfeeding lowers a woman's risk of breast cancer."
> What is really meant is that "breastfeeding protects a woman from breast
> cancer." The word "protects" has been passed through the filter of fear, and  become
> "reduces risk."
>
> Has anyone else noticed this shift in words?

I have noticed this and that is one of the reasons that I tend to
remind parents in my classes that not breastfeeding "increases the
risk" of breast cancer, gastro-intestinally based illness, heart
disease, diabetes, etc.  I work in a hospital and keep waiting (for 6
years now) for someone to come forward and say something.  Nothing so
far, thankfully.

Sam
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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