J Salicos

Thanks for articulating everything I was thinking!
Glad to have you among the childrens rights
defenders!!
Jill



--- Sonia Ulan <sulan@...> wrote:
>
> Stephanie, without meaning to totally offend
> (sorry!), is your husband
> totally nuts? He's willing to sacrifice you
> baby's/child's/future
> adult's health? I firmly believe that if someone is
> educated in the
> true merits of breastfeeding there would be no
> "choice" in infant
> nutrition. It is absolutely the most superior
> wonder food in existence
> on the planet and no informed person could possibly
> deny that for their
> child. It's like choosing to eat scraps from the
> dumpster instead of
> opting for tasty, delicious and healthy food in your
> own well-stocked
> kitchen. No one who has the choice chooses dumpster
> food! Not only
> will nursing supply your baby with an immune system
> and sustain your
> child even through illness (it's the perfect
> medicinal food when your
> baby has a cold or diarrhea or is vomiting) but the
> health benefits last
> well into adulthood. Lower rates of allergies,
> sensitivities, diabetes,
> even cancers. This is all well documented. Babies
> fed ARTIFICIAL food
> such as formula, or worse, COW'S MILK have higher
> statistics on
> everything negative except maybe brain development.
> Which has been
> well-documented for breast-fed babies: higher
> intelligence for the
> amino acids present in breast milk. No formula can
> replicate that!
>
> I'm sorry to be on this tirade but I positively see
> red when I see
> people think there is a "choice" and usually for the
> sake of unimportant
> and temporary situations such as convenience or
> lifestyle. How can any
> loving parent deny their child what is clearly
> theirs? Boy, have the
> formula companies or, dare I say it, the radical
> feminists, really
> snowed us that much, all these years?
>
> I'm sure I'm making a few enemies tonight with these
> views but 10 solid
> years of research into the subject have brought me
> to these conclusions.
> Yes, most babies will grow according to the growth
> charts
> (interestingly-enough supplied by the formula
> companies) when fed by
> artificial means, but most of the time we are
> forfeiting quality for
> quantity (the pounds babies gain). People can seem
> to grow and gain
> weight eating dumpster food too...Formula is made of
> "Scraps" and
> by-products: leftover and sour milk processed into
> powders, the lowest
> grades of corn syrup, coconut and palm oils
> (recognized poison for the
> heart) and a few fake versions of vitamins.
> Mechanically-produced and
> rarely efficiently absorbed by the system.
>
> As I say, there is no true choice.
>
> Sign me,
>
> a radical-baby's-rights-defender
>
>
> Ron and Stephanie wrote:
> >
> > Karen-
> > Yep, you got it!
> > here I am asking you another question about abb.
> words: is LLL Le Leche
> > League?
> > I am very interested in LLL. My dh is not
> convinced that I should nurse the
> > next baby...
> > Stephanie
> >
> >
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