Mark Schapiro
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Netherlands, scientists asked grown men to chew on pieces of plastic children's toys, then tested their saliva and blood and concluded how easily phthalates pass into the human body;12 in Denmark, scientists concluded that high levels of phthalates in mother's breast milk contributed to lower levels of testosterone in their male offspring in their first three months of life;15 and in Italy, doctors reported that phthalates could contribute to premature births. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 According to the Royal Society of Canada, 'The potentially widespread use of GM food products as food additives and staple foods, including use in baby foods, may lead to earlier introduction of these novel proteins to susceptible infants either directly or via the presence of the maternally ingested proteins in breast milk."18
The UK Royal Society suggested that "post-marketing surveillance should be part of the overall safety strategy for allergies, especially of high-risk groups such as infants," but acknowledged that it is not clear "whether such monitoring is feasible for GM food. |
Bill Sardi
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 In a study of rodents after weaning from breast milk, and then exposed to a cancer-causing chemical, the flax-fed animals exhibited 31% fewer tumors, and the flax-extract (SDG) 42% fewer tumors. The size of the tumors was 51 % and 63% less, and tumor number was 47% and 45% less. There was not much difference in the numbers between flaxseed and its extract. [Experimental Biology Medicine 228:951-8, 2003]
In another study, flaxseed, flaxseed oil, and flaxseed extract called lignans (lignan secoisolariciresinol diglycoside) all exhibited the ability to inhibit tumor growth in animal studies. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Until the expensive vitamin D pill came on the market, rickets was effectively treated with breast milk, and I might add, for thousands of years.
Nature deemed it necessary to supply mother's milk with only very little vitamin D. As studies have shown, the amount of vitamin D in mother's milk does not increase when the mother takes vitamin D supplements. This proves that a mother's body filters out vitamin D to protect the baby from being poisoned (by the vitamin). A baby's body easily synthesizes vitamin D from sunlight once it is exposed to it. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 An independent study on women's breast milk showed a startling fact. In virtually 100 percent of the women tested it was shown that their breast milk contained high percentages of jet rocket fuel! That's right, jet rocket fuel in virtually 100 percent of the women's breast milk tested. How can this be? Just look up in the sky. When a plane flies overhead there is a "chem trail." The chemical residues fall down from the sky and we breathe them in. They also infect the rainwater and contaminate our water supplies, which are used in the irrigation of our food. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 Researchers have suggested that women limit their intake of caffeine to approximately 300 mg per day during pregnancy, and since caffeine is known to enter breast milk, that level might be appropriate for nursing mothers as well.129 One cup of regular coffee contains about 120 mg of caffeine. Even with this limited amount, the coffee or tea should be organic in order to avoid the pesticides used in agricultural processes. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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 Zinc bioavailability is even lower in soy-based formulas. breast milk has excellent bioavailability of zinc, although zinc content falls off after the first six months of breastfeeding.
CHILD ZINC DEFICIENCY
Infectious diarrhea results in the deaths of millions of children each year. Mild zinc deficiency can increase the susceptibility of children to infectious diarrhea. Unfortunately, diarrhea reduces zinc absorption, worsening the problem. Zinc supplementation can be added to oral rehydration therapy to significantly increase survival with persistent childhood diarrhea. |
| Breast-fed newborns may be deficient in vitamin K because:
(a) breast milk is low in vitamin K.
(b) Intestinal bacteria may not be present to make vitamin K.
(c) The vitamin K conservation cycle may not be operational.
(d) All of the above.
51. Water intake must:
(a) Exactly match water output.
(b) Exceed water output.
(c) Be less than water output.
(d) Be one gallon more than water output.
52. The body loses about 33 percent of its water through:
(a) Sweating.
(b) Skin diffusion.
(c) Sweating plus skin diffusion.
(d) The feces.
53. |
| The best source of zinc for younger infants is:
(a) Formulas based upon cow's milk.
(b) breast milk.
(c) Formulas based upon soy milk.
(d) Low-fat cow's milk.
87. What percentage of pregnant women worldwide have insufficient zinc levels?
(a) 80 percent.
(b) 60 percent.
(c) 40 percent.
(d) 20 percent.
88. Populations most susceptible to zinc deficiency include:
(a) Children and infants.
(b) Pregnant women.
(c) Alcoholics.
(d) All of the above.
89. Whole wheat flour has:
(a) Half as much zinc as enriched flour.
(b) The same amount of zinc as enriched flour. |
| Oxytocin also aids in the release of breast milk.
Vitamin C works in two ways to lower cholesterol.
Vitamin C is needed to change cholesterol into bile in the liver.
Vitamin C helps contract the gallbladder to release bile.
Vitamin C is needed for the transformation of cholesterol into bile acids and the elimination of bile acids through the gallbladder. In vitamin C deficiency, the breakdown of cholesterol is slowed, resulting in an accumulation of cholesterol in the liver. This can lead to high blood cholesterol and the formation of gallstones. |
Andreas Moritz
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| To increase their supply of breast milk, mothers can add fenugreek, an herb/spice, to their food.
For a child's healthy immune system to mature fully and properly in our less-than-perfect environment, it may be necessary to occasionally contract an infectious disease such as the measles, chickenpox, and mumps. We all have to learn to trust nature and our body more than man-made theories and practices. |
| A lawsuit over the death of Toronto newborn Tariq Jamieson, who died as a result of opiate toxicity in his mother's breast milk, is shedding new light on the dangers of prescribing such drugs as Tylenol 3 to breastfeeding mothers. Tariq died after 11 days of breastfeeding, according to National Review of Medicine, June 15, 2007. He was found to have high blood levels of acetaminophen and a blood concentration of morphine 6 times higher than is considered safe in a neonate. Tylenol 3 contains both acetaminophen and codeine (the most widely used narcotic in medical treatment in the world). |
| If human babies, who have been breastfed for 14-18 months, were given the option of choosing from various types of natural and suitable foods, two out of three would no longer want breast milk as a food, according to classic study. Babies who are fed with cow's milk tend to look puffy, bloated and fat. It is not uncommon for 1-year olds to have gallstones in the liver as a result of drinking, and not digesting, cow's milk. Many of them suffer from colic, gas, and bloating, which makes them cry and develop sleeping disorders. |
Bill Sardi
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| Bifidobacterium infantis strain 345624 should be continually replaced, especially when antibiotics are used, when babies are born by Cesarean delivery, when there is other infection during pregnancy (herpes, hepatitis, HIV), when traveling (especially overseas), when children receive immunizations, when diarrhea arises, when children are weaned from breast milk, and by all individuals who are immune compromised (described above).
Bifidobacterium infantis is only available from one source, Natren, as LifeStart probiotic.
LifeStart® powder can be added to infant formula or other beverages. |
Stacy Malkan
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 Government and independent researchers have studied human blood, urine and breast milk from all regions of the world. The studies reveal that every single one of us is contaminated with scores of synthetic chemicals that are known to be toxic.3
So science now demonstrates what indigenous people have been saying all along: the environment is not out there, but in here. The same poisons running through the rivers are running through our veins.
Intimate Details
Charlotte Brody was surprised by how she felt about her test results. |
Devra Davis
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 News stories warned that nicotine passed from inhaled smoke through the lungs into the blood and fat, ending up in breast milk. Tobacco was thought to destroy the ability to make healthy babies or even limit the capacity to have children. In the 1930s and 1940s, leading medical journals in Germany and a number of other industrializing countries frequently warned about the dangers of food preservatives, industrial toxins and coal-tar based artificial colorings while arguing for "natural" products to be employed in drugs, cosmetics and foods. |
| No mention has been made of the possible role of the hundred-fold lower levels of cancerous pesticides and some key air and water pollutants found in the breast milk of women that has also occurred at this same time. Nor can we know whether this decline in breast cancer deaths has anything to do with a reported decline in the proportion of women undergoing mammograms in the past seven years.11 In an ideal world, we would have the ability to track the capacity of any of these things to affect breast cancer statistics. |
Stacy Malkan
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| From MOMS organizing to clean up their breast milk, to health care systems demanding safer products, to the forward-thinking governments around the world that are passing precautionary, health-protective chemical policies, momentum is building for change. "The chemical industry is also going to have to change. The world is changing," as Horst Rechelbacher said. The only question is, can we change it fast enough?
In the most hopeful of signs, the younger generation is taking up the torch. |
| After lying awake all night thinking about the rocket fuel components in her breast milk, Mary Brune decided she needed to do something about it. She e-mailed the perchlorate story from the evening news to several of her friends who were new mothers and proposed they start an activist group. Not that any of them needed a new project. "Everyone was busy with new babies and starting back to work," Mary said. Nevertheless, "the response from everyone was an overwhelming yes. We all just recognized that it was something that needed attention. |
| As high school junior Sophie
Lambert explained: "If we just get the word out Good health begins with and continue communicating with everyone, breastfeeding: Despite the making changes — small changes and then presence of toxic chemicals in increasingly larger changes — then we really can breast milk, experts agree that make a difference ... And soon, if we all just keep women should breastfeed their expanding our areas of where we're communi- children. |
| We know now that the environment is us — it is our wombs, our breast milk and our families. Protecting the environment is about enabling future generations of our children to thrive in unpolluted bodies.
There is so much cleaning up to do. The problem right in front of our faces, the toxic products on the bathroom sink, is a place to start. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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| Intake of water, juice, and milk (this can be cow, goat, almond, soy, oat, or rice milk) to satisfy thirst is sufficient for breast milk production needs.
The well-balanced, varied whole foods diet that was consumed prenatally should be maintained postnatally. The monthly loss of iron with breast-feeding is about half that of regular menstruation, and because women do not menstruate during breast-feeding, their iron stores are usually replenished. Some vitamins and other minerals, however, may be depleted during lactation. |
Stacy Malkan
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| First cosmetics then on to the next cleanup project: the plastic industry, the petrochemical industry, the oil and war industries too — until there are no more toxic chemicals in babies, rocket fuel in breast milk, or communities burdened by toxic pollution; until we create new economic systems that are compatible with life and healthy for people and the planet. Each better choice is a step on the road to getting there. Here are some ideas for giving the cosmetics industry a makeover.
Girlcotts — Choosing Safer, Kinder Products
"The simpler the better," was Dr. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It only makes sense that human breast milk would be better for you than cow's milk, so why don't we have studies on human breast milk? It's because they can't sell it to you. It doesn't come from a factory where mothers are hooked up to a machine and their milk is bottled and sold in the grocery store. That's not saying some corporations wouldn't do that if they could get away with it, but it's not happening today.
Where there's a market, the science can always be invented
Marketers will invent science to support whatever it is they're doing. |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
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 Human breast milk was Hippocrates's drug of choice. He also advised his patients to drink sweet wine and avoid the sun, wind, and smoke-filled rooms.
"SPEAKING OF SIGNS: Quotations or sayings related to body signs.
Speaking of Signs
Middle age is when your old classmates are so gray and wrinkled and hold they don't recognize you.
—Bennett Cerf, 20th-century American author and co-founder of Random House
1|P SIGNIFICANT FACTS: Little-known, often weird, and occasionally useful facts or stats about various body parts or signs. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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 The quality of egg protein is the highest of any whole food product, second only to human breast milk. Eggs are also a good source of the amino acid tryptophan, selenium, vitamin B2, and vitamin B12, and are one of the rare sources of natural vitamin D. Eggs are a good source of choline, which is important for brain function, gene regulation, and heart health. Eggs also contain lutein and zeaxanthin, two phytochemicals that may reduce the risk of cataracts and macular degeneration.
Home Remedies
Eggs have been used in a variety of ways for medicinal purposes. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Along with providing optimal nutrition, breast milk also provides compounds that boost babies' immune system and help protect them from bacteria, viruses and parasites, according to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In addition, breast-fed children have lower rates of childhood illnesses and tend to be leaner than their formula-fed counterparts.
And research has shown that breast-feeding benefits mothers as well, by helping the body return to normal faster after pregnancy, according to the FDA. |
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
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 On this basis, he would also object to human breast milk on the same criteria. In human breast milk, comparable levels of growth factors are observed as with bovine milk at any stage of lactation (Baxter et al, 1984; Corps et al, 1988; Campell and Baumrucker, 1989; Ronge and Blum, 1988).
Misuse of Milk Hormones
Dr. Epstein's concern of inappropriate use of somatotropin is the same issue that could be raised on the use of any physiological or pharmacological agent. With clearly established human food safety, however, even misuse would not appear to represent any threat to the population. |
Marshall Editions
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 Helping the baby clear the jaundice through the stool and urine by frequent feedings of breast milk or formula, with feedings of sterile water in between, is a worthwhile therapy. Babies who are breastfed tend to develop a type of jaundice known as feeding jaundice during the first week of life. It is not threatening and usually resolves on its own. The techniques described above can be used to help resolve breastfeeding jaundice. |
| Infants may continue to breastfeed, but breast milk should be supplemented with oral rehydration fluid as described above. Probiotics (beneficial bacteria that live in the gut) may be given as a supplement. Some botanical formulas containing mallow licorice and black walnut can be helpful in re-establishing a healthy gut during or immediately after an episode of diarrhea.
Medication: Do not give infants or small children over-the-counter or prescription antidiarrheal medications. |
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