Posted to the usenet (misc.health.alternative, sci.med, misc.kids.pregnancy) Copied to DC editor Petersen at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ATTENTION:  Denise Arcoverde < This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it WABA Steering Group ( WABA acts on the Innocenti Declaration and works in liaison with UNICEF. ) http://www.waba.org.br/ Primatologist Michael Sierchio - a SCIENTIST! - says emphatically that breast-feeding is NOT immunization. http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=581253263 Denise, Thank you for the URL for WABA and for the info about World Breastfeeding Week 2000. Oddly, the Innocenti Declaration**** - which WABA acts upon - makes NO explicit mention of the FACT that breast-feeding women are magnificent IMMUNIZERS (note caps) who continually scan their babies' environments for pathogens and manufacture specific antibodies which they inject with their breasts on a DAILY basis... The Innocenti Declaration should explicitly refer to breast-feeding as IMMUNIZATION (note caps) because the IMMUNIZATION aspect of breast-feeding is one of the main reasons why - as the Innocenti Declaration states - breast-feeding reduces incidence and severity of infectious diseases, thereby lowering infant morbidity and mortality... http://www.waba.org.br/inno.htm Denise, why not explicitly tell women of the world the REASON breast-feeding prevents disease and saves lives? The Innocenti Declaration notes that, [C]onstraints and influences...manipulate perceptions and behaviour towards breastfeeding, often by subtle and indirect means.... Failure to explicitly call breast-feeding IMMUNIZATION is one subtle means by which American medicine is perpetuating denial of truly massive numbers of free daily immunizations. Another subtle anti-breast-feeding manipulation (already stated; repeated for emphasis):  American medicine's FAILURE to explicitly inform Americans of the FACT that breast-feeding women are magnificent IMMUNIZERS (note caps) who continually scan their babies' environments for pathogens and manufacture specific antibodies which they inject with their breasts on a DAILY basis... This last failure of American medicine is keeping Americans from understanding the import of Robert Cohen's evidence that C. Everett Koop and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration are ignoring evidence that milk from COW'S - whose milk production has been artificially HORMONALLY boosted - may be causing breast cancer above and beyond breast cancer caused by failure to breast-feed. IMPORTANT FACT:   HUMAN milk and COW'S milk are not only powerful ANTI-BODY delivery systems - they are powerful HORMONE delivery systems. Most Americans don't know this.  Perhaps people in other countries are also being kept in the dark about this... If Researcher Cohen is right, American medicine's failure to help Americans understand this crucial hormone delivery system fact is perhaps causing breast cancer - above and beyond breast cancer caused by failure to breast-feed... See... AAP causing breast cancer? http://www.remarq.com/read/14325/q_cX5VKEysbUAAAAA In conclusion... Denise, you wrote, You can count on me to help in any way I can. Denise, I urge you to use your influence in the WABA Steering Group to help me effect the required changes in the Innocenti Declaration (see above). To speed the change in the Innocenti Declaration, every breast-feeding/La Leche League/WABA site should immediately start promoting breast-feeding as IMMUNIZATION -  by stating clearly on the first page of EVERY Breast-feeding site:  Breast-feeding women are magnificent IMMUNIZERS who continually scan their babies' environments for pathogens and manufacture specific antibodies which they inject with their breasts on a DAILY basis... I hope I can count on you to help me, Denise - even if at first it appears you can't... Sincerely, Todd D. Gastaldo, D.C. 8948 SW Barbur Blvd Box 6 Portland, OR 97219 FAX (815) 366-2814 TEL (503) 640-0456 http://www.egroups.com/group/chiro-list *********The Innocenti Declaration was produced and adopted by participants at the WHO/UNICEF policymakers' meeting on Breastfeeding in the 1990s: A Global Initiative, co-sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development (A.I.D.) and the Swedish International Development Authority (SIDA), held at the Spedale degli Innocenti, Florence, Italy, on 30 July - 1 August 1990. The Declaration reflects the content of the original background document for the meeting and the views expressed in group and plenary sessions. http://www.waba.org.br/inno.htm See also... Jonathan R. Fox/Stupid MD Neurology Trick... http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=593567344 AAP’s deletion sucks http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=578510144 DCs should promote DAILY immunizations - the ultimate in immunologic adjusting http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=583795586 DCs are *almost* in the club... http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=584285072 The House of Medicine: Are DCs finally welcome? http://www.remarq.com/read/14325/qAMxbW7sziIAAAAAA http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=599324123 Schroeder v Gastaldo/Vit C cures polio?/Could Vit C reduce artery wall thickness? http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=595739584 DC editor Petersen: THINK ABOUT IT http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=596253906 DC editor Petersen: MOST American MD surgical behaviors constitute GRISLY alt-med quackery

The gut is only receptive to antibodies for a few hours after birth so continued breast feeding probably does not contribute much to the immune system from the milk. Breast feeding is not as steril as bottle feeding so bacteria are introduced sooner and in a more controled manner. What that does was not very well understood the last time I did any reading on it. It is very difficult to argue the mother's milk is not the best food for a baby however there is not enough one feeding of breast milk and one of formula might cause gastrointesinal problems. Any hamones in cows milk are broken down in the gut and the cow being pregnate or not will have a lot more effect on the harmones in the milk that anything she is fed. And the harmones she is injected with are identical to the ones she produces. Any differences in breast fed or bottle fed babies and the effect on mother is small at most if the other factors are held constant. The closeness develop while breast feeding is probably more important than any other single factor.

* The gut is only receptive to antibodies for a few hours after birth so * continued breast feeding probably does not contribute much to the * immune system from the milk. Breast feeding is not as steril as * bottle feeding so bacteria are introduced sooner and in a more * controled manner. What that does was not very well understood * the last time I did any reading on it. * * It is very difficult to argue the mother's milk is not the best * food for a baby however there is not enough one feeding of * breast milk and one of formula might cause gastrointesinal * problems. * * Any hamones in cows milk are broken down in the gut and the * cow being pregnate or not will have a lot more effect on the * harmones in the milk that anything she is fed. And the harmones * she is injected with are identical to the ones she produces. * * Any differences in breast fed or bottle fed babies and the * effect on mother is small at most if the other factors are * held constant. The closeness develop while breast feeding * is probably more important than any other single factor. * * Anne William - 4/11/98 Jessica - 8/28/78 For Articles/Resources on intuitive parenting, breastfeeding, co-sleeping, etc.:                            http://www.intuitiveparenting.org I am: mom, Attorney, Prof., Advocate for Fathers, ChildBirth Educator (in training)                            http://www.parentinglaw.com [Note:  Remove NOSPAM to reply by email.]

* The gut is only receptive to antibodies for a few hours after birth so * continued breast feeding probably does not contribute much to the * immune system from the milk. Breast feeding is not as steril as * bottle feeding so bacteria are introduced sooner and in a more * controled manner. What that does was not very well understood * the last time I did any reading on it. * * It is very difficult to argue the mother's milk is not the best * food for a baby however there is not enough one feeding of * breast milk and one of formula might cause gastrointesinal * problems. * * Any hamones in cows milk are broken down in the gut and the * cow being pregnate or not will have a lot more effect on the * harmones in the milk that anything she is fed. And the harmones * she is injected with are identical to the ones she produces. * * Any differences in breast fed or bottle fed babies and the * effect on mother is small at most if the other factors are * held constant. The closeness develop while breast feeding * is probably more important than any other single factor. Marion EDD 20.Juni 2000

Breast feeding is not as **steril** as * bottle feeding so bacteria are introduced sooner and in a more * **controled** manner. * Any **hamones** in cows milk are broken down in the gut and the * cow being **pregnate** or not will have a lot more effect on the * **harmones** in the milk that anything she is fed. Steril?  Controled?  Hamones?  Pregnate?  Harmones? (Trolls are notoriously bad spellers.)