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"BREAST MILK ENHANCEMENT OF OMEGA-3 FATS: Results of a study of thirty-one nursing mothers found that those who consumed 100 grams of sardines two or three times a week had a significant increase in the omega-3 fat content of breast milk. Tips on Using Sardines SELECTION AND STORAGE: • Buy fresh sardines from a fish market when available—they're delicious! • Look for firm flesh and clear bright eyes. • Rinse fresh sardines and place in a sealed container in a single layer and covered with damp paper towels. Store the container in the refrigerator." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"This also underscores one risk of breast-feeding. breast milk has little or no vitamin D unless the mother's vitamin D level is 50 to 70. This is why all women who breast-feed should supplement their breast-fed infant, or take enough vitamin D to normalize their own vitamin D level. Dr. Bruce Hollis of the Medical University of South Carolina found that the average nursing mother required 4,000 IU or more of vitamin D a day to optimize vitamin D concentrations in breast milk and normalize blood levels in the infants." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"Imagine a newborn human baby doubling its body weight in several months on a diet of breast milk. Most breast milk is less than 2% protein and even the heavier "hind-milk" is only about 10% protein. breast milk itself, is a fat-dominant food. The construction of proteins actually occurs from the free amino acids available to the body. The body has to break down all protein (if it can) into its constituent parts, the amino acids, before the material can be utilized. Protein is a collection of amino acids. The protein structure consists of amino acids strung together like grapes on a vine." - David Wolfe, The Sunfood Diet Success System (Get the book.)

"Various toxins, like mercury, have been shown to pass into a mother's breast milk. In light of these findings, people have begun to ask, Is it safe to expose newborn babies to so many toxins? Do the threats those exposures pose outweigh the benefits of breastfeeding according to AAP's Pediatric Environmental Health guidebook, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the World Health Organization, and the U.S. surgeon general "have considered the problem of environmental contaminants in human milk and continue to recommend breastfeeding." Many integrative physicians, like Kenneth Bock, M.D." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"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." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"Transfer factor is found in colostrum, the secretion from the breast that is produced immediately prior to breast milk. The function of the transfer factor in this secretion is to transfer immune information to the immune system of the offspring. By helping to transfer this information, transfer factor can enable the body to launch a more effective immune response. Transfer factor also promotes Th-1 immunity, helping to balance Th-2 skewing of the immune system, which is so common among 4-A kids. Transfer factor supplements are usually derived from either eggs or cows." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"When inhaled by a pregnant woman, PERC can interfere with a developing fetus and also contaminate breast milk. Petroleum distillates abound in just about every conventional consumer product on the market: lip gloss, perfume, hand dishwashing liquid, fertilizer, pesticides, plastics, paint thinners, solvents, artificial fragrances, furniture polishes, stain removers, and oven cleaners. If at all possible, try to phase these highly flammable bioaccumulative compounds out of your life, especially if you're thinking about having children." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Surveys in Sweden have also found triclosan in the breast milk of 60 percent of women. Triclosan interacts with free chlorine in tap water and degrades under sunlight to produce chloroform. It also produces a class of persistent, highly toxic, carcinogenic chemicals known as dioxins (16 ) ?an ingredient in the Agent Orange defoliant used by the U.S. in the Vietnam War. In 2005, an advisory panel to the FDA concluded that triclosan and triclocarbon posed "unacceptable health and environmental risks," but the FDA hierarchy still ignores this conclusion and its implications." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.) "In addition, some fragrance materials have been found to accumulate in adipose tissue and are present in breast milk. Other materials are suspected of being hormone disrupters. The implications are not fully known, as there has been little evaluation of systemic effects. There are environmental concerns as well, as fragrances are volatile compounds, which add to both indoor and outdoor air pollution. At present there is little governmental regulation of fragrance. The fragrance industry has in place a system of self-regulation." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"Peasant women in Europe used to squirt breast milk on soil to encourage it. We've fertilized with hair, blood, used wigs, rotting blankets and just about anything else that once lived. One Boston grape grower's root system was embedded in the decomposing corpse of a circus elephant. Scientists recently uncovered an entire whale skeleton in the soil of a Tuscan vineyard. As late as 1959, farmers in Tanzania still practiced wanyambuda, a fertility rite involving spreading fields with human blood and body parts mashed with seeds." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"At least two common hormone disrupters in sunscreens —oxybenzone and octyl-methoxycinnamate—have been detected in human breast milk, further demonstrating how readily the human body absorbs them, and how easily these chemicals can be passed on to infants. (2) The subsequent release of such feminizing ingredients through the placenta into unborn children increases the prospect that male babies will be feminized, or will develop hormonal imbalances later in their lives." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"This gland helps control aspects of physical growth, blood pressure (see hypertension), pregnancy (including breast milk production), thyroid and adrenal gland function (see hypothyroidism or adrenal insufficiency), and overall metabolism. Any abnormality of this gland usually means that it produces either too much or too little of one or more hormones and is causing changes elsewhere in the body." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"In conclusion, he wrote, "Perhaps the ideal situation is trying to ensure that breast milk is as nontoxic as can be." Open the dialogue with your obstetrician; discuss whether the immunological benefits of breastfeeding still outweigh the potential risks these chemicals might pose. Look into these organic formulas, which might be a good option for you. Dr. Rosen recommends discussing these organic formulas with your doctor: • Similac Organic (www.similacorganic.com), with cow's milk • Earth's Best Organic Infant Formula (www.babyorganic .com) • Nature's One Baby's Only Organic (www." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "DDE, PCBs, hexachlorobenzene, and various industrial pesticides—found in human breast milk. Even women who haven't been occupationally exposed to these chemicals might be contaminated, so be careful. If you do choose to breastfeed your child, you should be all the more vigilant about detoxifying your body before getting pregnant. Exercise regularly, stay hydrated and consume only the purest, most nutritious foods. The nutritional content of your diet will make a big difference in the quality of the milk you're feeding your child." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"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." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"It is naturally found in coconuts and breast milk. Typical dosage for caprylic acid is 500 to 1200 mgs per day. Avoid if you are pregnant or nursing. It may cause some gastrointestinal upset because it alters the body's natural flora. Be sure to use probiotics while you use this product. Fibre Foods that are high fibre help with constipation but also clear bile, cholesterol and toxic debris from the gastrointestinal tract. Fibre is particularly beneficial for sweeping out yeast from the gut. Many Candida cleansing kits contain psyllium, a type of soluble fibre." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"Human beings should drink human breast milk not bovine breast milk. It is the allergic reaction to many of the elements in bovine milk that causes these inflammatory responses in human beings. Some of those can be expressed as joint pain. This is frequently diagnosed as arthritis. Remember that healthy joints don't hurt. Unhealthy joints suffering from inflammation, lack of movement or lack of lubrication hurt." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"Bp-3 has been detected in urine up to four hours after skin application of sunscreens, and both Bp-3 and OMC accumulate in the body, as evidenced by their detection in human breast milk. Yet, if you read through the industry's Cosmetic Industry Review Compendium, it makes no reference to the hormonal effects of Bp-3 or any other sunscreen ingredient ( 10). Oxybenzone, a chemical similar to estrogen in its effects, is another hormone disrupter commonly found in sunscreens." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"Infants and Pregnant Mothers Are probiotics safe for infants? breast milk is a natural source of many probiotics and research suggests that the introduction of probiotics early in life is essential to the maturation of the immune system. Clinical studies have investigated the effects of probiotic supplementation in newborn infants (0-8 weeks of age). Both Bifidobacteria and Lactobacilli have been administered orally at daily doses of 9 billion (9 x 109) CFUs. Children (six to 60 months) have been given a mix of B. infantis and L. acidophilus at doses of 6 billion (6 x 109) CFUs per day." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"Human beings should drink human breast milk not bovine breast milk. It is the allergic reaction to many of the elements in bovine milk that causes these inflammatory responses in human beings. Some of those can be expressed as joint pain. This is frequently diagnosed as arthritis. Remember that healthy joints don't hurt. Unhealthy joints suffering from inflammation, lack of movement or lack of lubrication hurt." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"When babies are changed over from breast milk to a cooked, solid food diet, they try to spit the food out. They intuitively know it is dead food. However, after repeated persistence and coaxing by mom or dad, they give in and accept the substandard cooked nutrition. Their natural instincts for healthy food are gradually suppressed. Several unhealthy processes begin to happen in a baby's body as a result of eating cooked food. First, cooked food digestion is incomplete and stools take on an offensive odor. The undigested matter is literally, rotting food." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"They have a lot against them since their mothers are not passing on immunity to them in the breast milk (because they were vaccinated and no longer make antibodies). Children die a rate eight times faster than normal after a DPT shot. James R Shannon of NIH understood this when he said "No vaccination can be proven safe before it is given to children." "I haven't got a flu shot and I don't intend to." ~ George W. Bush, 2004 Presidential Candidate and President. Does Mr. Bush know more than the rest of us?" - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Breast milk is natural food. It contains everything needed in the correct proportions for the proper growth and development of a baby. Babies do not begin producing digestive enzymes in their bodies until their teeth have begun to erupt, meaning they have great difficulty handling solid food. If for some reason, the mother is unable to breast feed the infant for long, the next best substitute is raw goat's milk mixed with equal parts of fresh carrot juice, juice from a stick of celery, and pure water." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"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." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Babies thrive best on breast milk from their mothers, which contains only about 1.6% protein. As a comparison, dairy products are 9-18% protein, and meats are 18-24% protein—much too concentrated. When protein is cooked, it cannot be converted into complete amino acids, which the liver needs. Eating too much cooked protein, especially animal protein, requires great amounts of pancreatic and stomach enzymes. It causes strong acid formation, liver congestion, kidney stress, adrenal gland fatigue, vitamin and mineral deficiencies, and an overall depletion of health." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Estrogen and progesterone levels are about 100 times higher than usual during pregnancy, dropping immediately after birth to prepregnancy levels as prolactin (the pituitary hormone) is produced to stimulate the production of breast milk. Throughout pregnancy, the placenta produces a hormone called relaxin, which softens the connective tissues and ligaments that support the uterus, allowing it to expand." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Have you ever tasted breast milk?" he asks. "Um ... not since I was a child," I answer. "Well, the taste of the fruit is quite raw," he continues. "It's very.. .personal. It tastes like mother's milk straight from the breast." The Rasta agrees to meet me later that afternoon to discuss procuring a taste of the coco-de-mer. I meet him at a bar overlooking a white sand ocean as the sun is setting. The water looks like molten golden butter. Large crabs scamper up regular coconut trees, cut the nuts off with their pincers, and whisk back down to eat the fallen fruits." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Bifidobacteria are stimulated by prebiotics and as such, it is not surprising that breast milk is naturally high in prebiotics. Do we know if prebiotic supplementation can benefit the health of infants? Researchers investigated the effects of an oligofructose ingredient (a prebiotic) in a group of 35 infants (6 to 24 months of age), who were attending a daycare center in Paris, France. The researchers found that the children supplemented with the prebiotic had positive changes to their microflora and showed improvements in their overall well-being." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"Why Newborn Infants May be Deficient in Vitamin K Vitamin K levels in breast milk are low. Bacteria to make vitamin K in the large intestine may not yet be ready. The vitamin K conservation cycle may not be developed. Because of these reasons, newborn infants are routinely given an injection of 1000 meg of vitamin K( (phylloquinone). Some infants receive one to three oral doses of vitamin K instead, which is almost as effective as the single injection. A single injection results in extremely high levels of vitamin K in the blood." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

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