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"By the end of that week, her son, who was breastfeeding, began bleeding with each bowel movement. When she went to the hospital she was told to stop breastfeeding and to put her baby on formula, and if the problem did not correct itself, they would have to operate on the child to determine where the blood was coming from. She was reluctant to do this because she was very aware of the value mother's milk has in building a strong immune system for a baby. She did some research on this problem and discovered that milk can cause intestinal bleeding in individuals who are allergic to milk." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Kuratsune was breastfeeding a baby during this time. Both continued to do their usual work. Remarkably, they both continued to enjoy good health. Mrs. Kuratsune even found that breastfeeding was less of a strain than before eating this raw diet. Next, they both switched to the same prisoner diet in cooked form. They became as hungry and diseased as the prisoners of war. They quickly came down with edema, vitamin deficiencies and collapse. It became so bad that they were forced to stop the experiment. This informal empirical study was recounted in a 1967 monograph written by Dr." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that infants be breastfed exclusively for six months and that Breastfeeding breastfeeding continue for at least the first year. But any amount that you breastfeed provides some benefit to your child. And breastfeeding is a nurturing and rewarding experience for most mothers that will long be remembered with joy. But for some mothers, breastfeeding brings frustration and feelings of inadequacy, usually because their milk supply is not enough for their baby. The initial days of breastfeeding are often time-consuming and tiring." - Linda B. White, M.D., The Herbal Drugstore (Get the book.)

"As a result, much of a mother's own body burden of toxic contaminants cycles rapidly through her unborn child. Only breastfeeding rivals this period of development in its potential for a mother's own accumulated chemical contaminants to affect her child." - 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.)

"My interpretation of this conflicting morass of statements is that while virtually everyone agrees that breastfeeding is superior to any of the alternatives ("breast is best," the editorial concludes), breastfeeding is a critical issue only for high-risk infants. Even then breastfeeding alone is insufficient. Mothers may have to avoid drinking milk themselves while ensuring that the baby is kept off solid foods for as much as six months after birth to significandy lessen the danger. Breastfeeding does have one other advantage that needs to be mentioned here." - Steve Carper, Milk Is Not for Every Body: Living with Lactose Intolerance (Get the book.)

"In this way, infants are protected by antibodies they receive from their mothers before birth and during breastfeeding. In some situations, an immune response is mounted against some of the body's own cells when they become damaged or defective. For instance, when normal cells turn into cancer cells, their surfaces will change. These new or altered cells catch the attention of immune defenders, including T cells and white blood cells." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"To prevent allergic disease in babies, consider perinatal avoidance of known food allergens, especially if there's a family history of allergies; breastfeeding might also protect newborns against allergies. Common food allergens include fish, shellfish, milk, soy, eggs, wheat, peanuts, and tree nuts like walnuts and cashews. • Talk to your pediatrician about the use of specific natural health product supplements, like probiotics and essential fatty acids, that may lower your child's risk of developing allergies." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"If you are taking Tindamax, practitioners recommend that you interrupt breastfeeding for three days after the dose. SEEING A LICENSED PRIMARY HEALTH-CARE PRACTITIONER (N.D., M.D., D.O., N.P., P.A.) The most appropriate way to assure an accurate diagnosis is to see a licensed health-care practitioner (naturopathic doctor; medical doctor; osteopathic doctor; nurse-practitioner, or physician's assistant) who is familiar with the clinical picture of various forms of vaginitis, can perform a physical exam, knows what to test for, and can collect those samples during your exam." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"In two recent studies, breastfeeding was associated with better visual acuity at age 3.5 [4] and 4 to 6 years [5]. Breast milk contains high levels of the long-chain fatty acid, docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), which rapidly accumulates in retinal photoreceptor membranes neonatally. DHA supplementation has been reported in some, but not all, studies to improve visual functions in some preterm and term infants (reviewed in [6]). Some suggest that improvements may only be transient. One study reported that DHA supplementation for 6 months postnatally did not improve vision in later childhood [5]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "The increased risk was independent of parental BMI, maternal glucose tolerance, breastfeeding duration, fetal and infant growth, and child behaviors such as frequency of TV watching or fast-food consumption. These results pointed to the urgency of recommending more moderate weight gain during pregnancy, considering the current obesity and diabetes pandemic. However, weight control strategies to prevent metabolic complications should exclude strict energy restriction and its associated ketosis, which may have negative effects on fetal cognitive development [103]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"The Healthy People 2000 breastfeeding objective is to hcive 75 percent of women leave the hospital breastfeeding and 50 percent contmuing to do so six months later. Obviously, we're falling far short of this goal. The advantages of breastfeeding are enormous. Babies have less acute illnesses and allergies. The bonding between the mother and her baby is enhanced far beyond that between mothers and bottle-fed babies. So why are only one-fifth of six-month-olds still breastfeeding?" - Charles R. Attwood, A Vegetarian Doctor Speaks Out (Get the book.)

"TABLE 4 Strategies to Prevent or Control Overweight in Children and Adolescents Increased physical activity —accumulate at least 60 minutes per day Increased breastfeeding Reduced television viewing Limit to screen time to < 2 hours per day No TV in child's bedroom Reduced intake of sugar-sweetened beverages Increased consumption of fruit and vegetables ? or more servings per day Family meals eaten together where possible Limit number of meals eaten outside the home Adapted from [130], [133], [134], and [137]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Do not use if you are pregnant or breastfeeding. KIDNEY CLEANSING Remedies that are good for kidney cleansing are also good for the blood. This is because the kidneys filter the blood to remove wastes and they recycle the blood back into the circulation. Dandelion Root and Leaves See the description under liver and blood cleansing. Nettle Root See the description under blood cleansing. Burdock Root Burdock clears the blood of congestion in the circulation, lymph and urinary tract. It helps to release excess fluids and increases perspiration, which release toxins." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.) "Neonates also acquire part of their healthy gastrointestinal flora from breastfeeding. Often newborns or breast-feeding mothers are required to take antibiotics that strip the healthy flora of the gastrointestinal system. This creates an imbalance of the good and bad bacteria in the gut if not properly replenished with probiotics. A person's natural flora is usually set in the first few years of life. Thus, if a child is exposed to a variety of toxic insults or the mother's flora was imbalanced, the child may have more of a chance of developing other disorders later in life." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"It can affect prolactin, a hormone necessary for milk production, so it might be a good idea to avoid it while breastfeeding. Because it does increase serotonin, it's wise to check with a knowledgeable health care professional about possible interactions with other drugs or supplements. Really. Though 5-HTP is great stuff, don't start mixing and matching with pharmaceuticals or taking yourself off medications without your doctor's knowledge. It can be done, but do it wisely and with supervision." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Choline status in newborns, infants, children, breastfeeding women, breast-fed infants and human breast milk. J. Nutr. Biochem. 16, 489^199. 50. Bremer, J., and Greenberg, D. M. (1960). Biosynthesis of choline in vitro. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 37, 173-175. 51. Institute of Medicine and National Academy of Sciences USA. (1998). Choline. In "Dietary Reference Intakes for Folate, Thiamin, Riboflavin, Niacin, Vitamin B12 Pantothenic Acid, Biotin, and Choline," pp. 390-422. National Academy Press, Washington, DC. 52. Fischer, L. M., Scearce, J. A., Mar, M. H., Patel, J. R., Blanchard, R. T." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"If so, they and their babies can reap the emotional and health benefits of breastfeeding. WARNING SIGN In men, a milky discharge is often the only sign of breast cancer. In women, however, having milky discharge without other signs is less likely to signal a serious problem. Galactorrhea can be a reaction to both prescription and illicit drugs, including birth control pills, hormone replacement therapy, antipsychotics, antidepressants, antihypertensives, marijuana, opiates, and steroids." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"For all of these reasons, and after years of touting formula, since the 1980s doctors have switched back to promoting breastfeeding. (Another case of modern medicine reversing itself. Science marches on!) In fact, a new type of specialist, lactation consultant, has sprung up to help new mothers deal with breastfeeding problems: too little milk, too much milk, sore nipples and painful nipple infections (mastitis). Green Pharmacy for breastfeeding Problems I'm no lactation consultant, but permit me to suggest a few herbs that can help make breastfeeding a more rewarding experience." - James A. Duke, Ph.D., The Green Pharmacy: New Discoveries in Herbal Remedies for Common Diseases and Conditions from the World's Foremost Authority on Healing Herbs (Get the book.)

"Zinc is especially needed during pregnancy and for the first six months of breastfeeding. Four out of five pregnant women worldwide have inadequate zinc levels. Adequate zinc is associated with healthier babies and easier deliveries. Iodine deficiency can cause brain damage, especially when it occurs in the fetuses of pregnant women after the first trimester and in children of up to three years of age. Iodine is critical for the growth and development of the brain and central nervous system." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"My interpretation of this conflicting morass of statements is that while virtually everyone agrees that breastfeeding is superior to any of the alternatives ("breast is best," the editorial concludes), breastfeeding is a critical issue only for high-risk infants. Even then breastfeeding alone is insufficient. Mothers may have to avoid drinking milk themselves while ensuring that the baby is kept off solid foods for as much as six months after birth to significandy lessen the danger. Breastfeeding does have one other advantage that needs to be mentioned here." - Steve Carper, Milk Is Not for Every Body: Living with Lactose Intolerance (Get the book.)

"All of us should encourage our loved ones to give their child the best foundation for neurological development by committing to breastfeeding when it is physiologically possible, safe, and feasible. We can also help defend women's rights to nurse their children in public in the name of promoting healthier brains in our younger generations. a race for prevention: the virtues of exercise Most of my patients seem to know that they are well served by staying active, and that it is important to develop lifelong habits of exercise." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"An ample supply of vitamin B12 is also vital for the nerve health of breastfeeding mothers and growing children. For more information on breastfeeding, natural childbirth, mother-child bonding and raw-food parenting, please read Conscious Eating and Rainbow Green Live Food Cuisine by Dr. Gabriel Cousens. Also, The Continuum Concept is a classic book on natural childcare. Eating For The Elderly Imagine that the entire digestive tract from the mouth all the way through the body is one big muscle." - David Wolfe, The Sunfood Diet Success System (Get the book.)

"Once your child is no longer breastfeeding, you'll face one of these choices. Should you give your child dairy products or not? I strongly recommend that you discuss with you physician the idea of raising your kids dairy free. Nonorganic milk might contain any number of toxins that can impair your child's development: estrogen mimics, hormones, steroids, antibiotics, and even dioxin. In 1988, the Food and Drug Administration found that 73 percent of milk samples from grocery stores in ten different cities contained pesticide residues." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "Most of us in primary care still advocate breastfeeding as ideally preferable to formula feeding," he wrote to me. "But with the addition of common brand organic formulas with added essential fatty acids and, in some cases, probiotics, the boundaries are blurring. I know this is controversial, but these are real-life questions families are dealing with today." In conclusion, he wrote, "Perhaps the ideal situation is trying to ensure that breast milk is as nontoxic as can be." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "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.naturesone .com), with cow's milk or soymilk • Ultra Bright Beginnings Organic (www.brightbeginnings ." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Neonates also acquire part of their healthy gastrointestinal flora from breastfeeding. Often newborns or breast-feeding mothers are required to take antibiotics that strip the healthy flora of the gastrointestinal system. This creates an imbalance of the good and bad bacteria in the gut if not properly replenished with probiotics. A person's natural flora is usually set in the first few years of life. Thus, if a child is exposed to a variety of toxic insults or the mother's flora was imbalanced, the child may have more of a chance of developing other disorders later in life." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

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"As of July 2005, I have continued extended breastfeeding although only at night. I have plenty of milk due to healthful eating habits. It has been documented that vegan mothers have the healthiest breast milk. To summarize the health benefits I experienced, I started at 215 pounds (Nov 2000), eventually losing a sum total of 95 pounds, dropping to 123 pounds (Nov 2003). Then I stabilized at 140 pounds (early 2004). My cholesterol tested 155 (mid-2004). My blood pressure is 125/64, and my pulse is 63 (July 2005). In addition, 20 years of sleepwalking ended." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "Kuratsune even found that breastfeeding was less of a strain than before eating this raw diet. Next, they both switched to the same prisoner diet in cooked form. They became as hungry and diseased as the prisoners of war. They quickly came down with edema, vitamin deficiencies and collapse. It became so bad that they were forced to stop the experiment. This informal empirical study was recounted in a 1967 monograph written by Dr. Ralph Bircher-Benner of Zurich entitled Dr. Bircher-Benner's Way to Positive Health and Vitality, 1867-1967. 9." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

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