More support for breast feeding!

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"Breast is best"

“Breast is best” is now accepted beyond all doubt as the proper nutrition for babies. Studies show that it’s also a very good thing for mothers. In fact, mothers who breast-feed have a lower risk of getting breast cancer (1) and breast-fed babies have a decreased risk of getting breast cancer when they grow up. (2) Women who breast-fed had less breast cancer and infants who were exclusively breast-fed for 16 weeks or more had a 50% lower rate of acute otitis media (ear infections). (3)

If breastfeeding is natural feeding, then formula feeding is artificial feeding. Obstetrician Mayer Eisenstein writes: "Formula is no magic concoction. Anyone who reads the ingredients on a can of infant formula will see that it is simply a recipe of cow's milk, sugar and water. Although “experts” may assure you that pasteurized cow's milk, refined sugar and chlorinated tap water is an adequate substitute for breast milk, there is no evidence (none) that this is true and mountains of evidence that infant formula can be detrimental to your baby's health. (4)


References:
1. Neucomb PA et al. Lactation and reduced risk of pre menopausal breast cancer. New England J of Medicine. 1994;330(2):81-87.
2. Freudenheim M et al. Exposure to breast milk in infancy and the risk of breast cancer. 1994;5:324-331. Epidemiology. 1994;5:324-331.
3. Sheard NF. Breast-feeding protects against otitis media. Nutrition Reviews. 1993;51(9):275-277.
4. Baumslag N. Tricks of the infant food industry. http://www.westonaprice.org/childrens-health/tricks-of-the-infant-food-industry

Van Every Family Chiropractic asks, "Do you know how important breastfeeding is?"

We at Van Every Family Chiropractic Center of Royal Oak, Michigan, care about your health and well-being and strive to provide you with current information in a variety of health topics!

According to a new study published in the journal Pediatrics nearly $13 billion in health care costs each year could be saved and nearly 1,000 infant deaths could be prevented if more mothers would breastfeed at least six months, beginning immediately after birth.

Why? Because breast milk is nature’s perfect food. It supplies everything the baby needs for optimal brain and body development. Breast milk contains antibodies that protect infants from bacterial and viral infections. More importantly, breast milk contains things necessary for health that have not yet been discovered. Also breastfeeding benefits the child emotionally and helps neurological development. Formula simply does not give a child what he/she needs for optimal growth, development and health. Formula made from soymilk is especially damaging to infants and may cause developmental and sexual problems later in life. (11)

References:
11. Bartick M, Reinhold A. The burden of suboptimal breastfeeding in the United States: a pediatric cost analysis. Pediatrics. (doi:10.1542/peds.2009-1616)
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/peds.2009-1616v1