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Kristine Owens CLD CD <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 26 Aug 2002 14:17:33 -0700
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Jan said:
<<I'd love to have a collection of sound studies that looked at many of
these issues and then came up with some good, hard, solid, research based
guidelines for mothers. Anyone out there have lots of money and nothing to
do with their time?>>

My kids are richer than I am and they have plenty of time :)....hmmmm

This may be oversimplifying things a little, but since human milk is
different and unknown completely in structure than any other milk we've ever
known, wouldn't it stand to reason that if you left out a living,
anti-cootie substance like human milk that it wouldn't go "bad" for quite a
long period of time?  Maybe we're so well-preserved ourselves, which is why
we're sicker yet lasting longer?  Like we're walking twinkies?  I don't know
 just thinking out loud.

I'm not a fan of making babies sick on anything, so don't get me wrong - not
a proponent of leaving out my milk to possibly be up all night with a sick
child :).

Maybe reframe our attitudes about "milk" in general, like everything else :)
?  If we see that cow's milk is made for the nourishment of baby cows and
not baby humans, then maybe it shouldn't be in the general human chain of
consumption?  We could then move that fat research money from studying cow's
milk into the bank accounts of those studying human milk!

Kristine Owens CLD CD
CAPPA Washington State Representative
http://www.kristineowens.com

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