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Tuesday, November 11, 2003
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Breast-feeding as religion
Dennis Prager
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11/11/03
 

One of the phenomena of our time is the passion surrounding breast-feeding. 
In Norway, for instance, it is now illegal to advertise baby formula. And 
America is probably not far behind…. 

Etc…

Virtually my entire generation of baby boomers was bottle-fed. Yet we are the 

healthiest generation in human history. Moreover, it is among today's young 
people - most of whom were breast-fed - that we constantly hear about the far 

greater incidence of obesity, juvenile diabetes and children with asthma. 
Now, 
I surely do not attribute these conditions to breast-feeding, but if 
breast-feeding were all that significant a health benefit, this generation 
would 
surely be more, not possibly less, healthy than the previous generation at 
the 
equivalent age. 

So the question remains: Why do all these healthy parents who had been 
bottle-fed now wage war against bottle-feeding? 

Etc…. 
 
The bonding argument is also a bit scary. Are women - who believe it - 
saying that without breast-feeding, they would not have been capable of 
sufficiently bonding with and loving their child? 

And if breast-feeding is indispensable to optimum bonding, why not 
breast-feed for a few years? Isn't more bonding better? 

Etc. 


Dennis Prager, one of America's most respected and popular nationally 
syndicated radio talk-show hosts, is the author of several books and a 
frequent guest 
on television shows such as Larry King Live, Politically Incorrect, The Late 
Late Show on CBS, Rivera Live, The Early Show on CBS, Fox Family Network, The 

O'Reilly Factor and Hannity &Colmes.


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