To the US Breastfeeding Committee: WE MUST HAVE MORE HELP: PLEASE  do a press release so the citizen's of Newark know what the Mayor is planning for Newark. Your mission statement reads: to improve the Nation's health by working collaboratively to, protect, promote, and support breastfeeding. "Protect" means to protect women from the commercial pressure to artificially feed. Please protect the babies and children of Newark 

 Partnership for a Healthier America (PHA) states they are "devoted to working with the private sector to ensure the health of our nation's youth by solving the childhood obesity crisis". "PHA is a nonpartisan, nonprofit that is led by some of the nation's most respected health and childhood obesity advocates. Supporting our effort is our honorary chair First Lady Michelle Obama, alongside our honorary vice-chairmen The Honorable William H. Frist, MD, and The Honorable Mayor Cory A. Booker of Newark, NJ.

Mayor Booker is vice-chairman of Partnershp for A Healthier America!!!  Mayor Booker is partnering with Nestle!!!

AND ....
 
Just out today in New York City: (right across the Hudson River!)  http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/mike_do_what_breast_for_baby_5x37cU1trizbh1T3qXtB6O#ixzz1saJuKfXU


"Mayor Bloomberg is promoting a new health initiative: BREASTFEEDING! The Health Department is pushing a sweeping initiative to prod dozens of city hospitals to get more moms in their maternity wards to breast feed, The Post has learned. It's called the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative.

Hospitals can apply for federal funding to participate in the program to obtain support and technical assistance and earn the designation as a Baby-Friendlyfacility. The program is sponsored by the World Health Organization.

Harlem Hospital and NYU Langone Medical Center are two city medical facilities that have already earned the distinction. The benefits of breast feeding to infants, mothers and society are well established . . . Specifically, infants exclusively breast fed for at least six months have a 22 percent reduction in risk for childhood obesity,the Health Department said in its proposal to hospitals.

First Lady Michelle Obama also recommends increasing breast feeding rates as part of her Let's Move campaign to reduce obesity. Under the city plan, 24 to 36 hospitals would enroll in the initiative over three years. Hospitals will be asked to implement a 10-step program to increase breast feeding."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/mike_do_what_breast_for_baby_5x37cU1trizbh1T3qXtB6O#ixzz1saJuKfXU 

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Renee Hefti - Graham (Vancouver, Canada)
Maria Parlapianco (New Jersey, USA)

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