Sima,
Thanksfully human beigns are very flexible and a proportion of the
population are able to tolerate not being fed normally and survive. However,
some babies do not survive (several hundred as a minimum each year in the
US) and it's the hospital system that picks up a fair proportion of very ill
babies (formula fed babies being 5x more likely to be hospitalised in their
first year than those breastfed for the first few months). That is not
flourishing. And then there's the premature deaths of mothers because they
did not breastfeed their babies or did not breastfeed them for long
enough...women who breastfeed each of their babies for more than 2 years
have half the incidence of breast cancer as those who breastfeed their
babies for 6 months...how many women die from breast cancer each year in the
US??
Karleen Gribble
Australia
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sima Leah Duato" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 12:58 AM
Subject: Re: risk-based language
My question remains, how are we all still here? How are so many formula fed
adults functioning? How are my exclusively breastfed children in the bottom
of their classes, while the formula fed kids are at the top of their class?
Of
course this is a generalization, and of course I'm not talking about my
actual
kids,(:)) but you get the point. What we know to be true and what is
actually heppening out there are hard to combine into intellectual
statements. Yes, formula contains a great number of poisons, but in this
country, babies not only don't die, they flourish, somehow, in spite of
formula. I can't believe it and it makes me quite ill when my friend
doesn't
give her babies a drop of colostrum or breastmilk, "It's not for me." But,
although my kids never go to the doctor, her kids are there only a couple of
times a year. From where does this immunity come?
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