There was a report on CNN health recently about breastfeeding which is VERY out of the ordinary in the way it was presented. It’s exactly how it should be presented but usually never is.
The title of the report is:
Study: Lack of breastfeeding costs lives, billions of dollars
http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/04/05/breastfeeding.costs/index.html?hpt=T2
This has actually been in the news all over [...]
“It’s not that you are better off if you have a baby and breast-feed than someone who’s never been pregnant, it’s that you are better off than someone who becomes pregnant and does not breast-feed. A woman who becomes pregnant and does not breast-feed is actually putting herself at risk. So we can talk about [...]
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst are studying the breast cells normally found in breast milk to see if there are any differences in the DNA of women whose biopsies turn out to be healthy and those whose biopsies show a problem, such as cancer. Learning more about these genetic differences may eventually [...]