Moderate Exercise Doesn't Alter Breast Milk: Study
Tue Feb 4, 2:41 PM ET, Yahoo News,
By Jacqueline Stenson,
NEW YORK (Reuters Health)
"Despite some concerns that exercise might change the quality of a woman's breast milk, new study findings indicate that moderate physical activity has no such effect.
A 1997 report found that exercise could lower the amount of immune-boosting proteins that a mother passes on to her baby through breast milk within the hour after the physical activity. But that study involved women who exercised to exhaustion.
"Many doctors are concerned that new moms are exercising strenuously and this will compromise their breast milk," study author Dr. Cheryl Lovelady, an associate professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, told Reuters Health. "But we found no effect for moderate exercise."
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Tuesday, February 04, 2003
ABC12.com: No food, drink, breastfeeding
Waterford Twp, February 4, 2003, WJRT-TV, ABC12.com
"Michigan and federal laws give nursing mothers the right to breast feed in public. That doesn't mean their right always is respected.
Molly Bascom-Keller of Oak Park says a guard harassed and yelled at her during a visit to Summit Place Mall in Oakland County. The mall says it has a no-food, no-drink rule for the play area, and breast milk is a drink." [ A more detailed article can be foundhere What action can women take when these laws are not respected? - JC]
Waterford Twp, February 4, 2003, WJRT-TV, ABC12.com
"Michigan and federal laws give nursing mothers the right to breast feed in public. That doesn't mean their right always is respected.
Molly Bascom-Keller of Oak Park says a guard harassed and yelled at her during a visit to Summit Place Mall in Oakland County. The mall says it has a no-food, no-drink rule for the play area, and breast milk is a drink." [ A more detailed article can be found
Monday, February 03, 2003
'Take back the table'
Joanne Laucius,
The Ottawa Citizen,
Monday, February 03, 2003, -- [This detailed article on childhood obesity touches on several issues including whether parental permissiveness is actually abusive. It concludes with an interesting note about breastfeeding promotion at the turn of the last century in France - JC] "Mr. Critser believes the legendary leanness of the French may be a lesson for North Americans.
Almost a century ago, France launched a campaign advocating restraint after doctors noted that mothers had abandoned breastfeeding and were overfeeding their children cow's milk, says Mr. Critser. The campaign was aimed at setting consistent patterns of eating: moderate portions, no seconds, desserts on rare occasions only and no between-meal snacks. That campaign still resonates in French eating habits.
"They were taught in childhood not to overeat," he notes. "And it didn't seem to do much harm to their self-esteem."
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Joanne Laucius,
The Ottawa Citizen,
Monday, February 03, 2003, -- [This detailed article on childhood obesity touches on several issues including whether parental permissiveness is actually abusive. It concludes with an interesting note about breastfeeding promotion at the turn of the last century in France - JC] "Mr. Critser believes the legendary leanness of the French may be a lesson for North Americans.
Almost a century ago, France launched a campaign advocating restraint after doctors noted that mothers had abandoned breastfeeding and were overfeeding their children cow's milk, says Mr. Critser. The campaign was aimed at setting consistent patterns of eating: moderate portions, no seconds, desserts on rare occasions only and no between-meal snacks. That campaign still resonates in French eating habits.
"They were taught in childhood not to overeat," he notes. "And it didn't seem to do much harm to their self-esteem."
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New Pakistan Ordinance Bans Baby Foods
Tue Jan 21, 7:26 AM ET, Ahmad Naeem Khan,OneWorld South Asia, LAHORE, Jan 21 (OWSA) - "Western multinational companies stand to lose billions after the Pakistan government banned the promotion of baby foods Monday through a radical new ordinance to boost child nutrition and promote breast-feeding.
While passing the "Protection of Breast-Feeding and Child Nutrition Ordinance," the government in the south Asian nation released statistics showing that the country spent U.S $2.4 billion annually on the import of formula milk. This happens to be the maximum spent on this commodity by any country in the world.
According to the new law, " no person shall promote infant formula, or other products, including bottle fed complementary foods, as a replacement for breast milk."
" Prolonged use of formula milk is also linked to a high infant mortality rate, which, in the case of Pakistan, happens to be the highest in the region," stressed leading pediatrician Dr Shahzad Awan. He added that the 50 per cent reduction in the infant mortality rate in neighbouring Bangladesh in recent years, highlighted the importance of encouraging mothers to breast-feed.
Current statistics show Pakistan's infant mortality rate hovered at 95 per thousand live births with some 230,000 children dying of diarrheal diseases, and 136 per thousand deaths annually of children up to the age of five.
Surprisingly baby foods are much in demand here. As social activist Dr Firdous Khan informed, " At present, there are some 160 varieties of infant formula milk available in the country. Although breast-feeding is part of our cultural traditions, only 16 per cent of infants are exclusively breast-fed till the age of three months, while the number of children breast-fed till the age of two totals just 56 per cent."
[Bangladesh's 50 per cent reduction in infant mortality rate says it all. - JC]
Tue Jan 21, 7:26 AM ET, Ahmad Naeem Khan,OneWorld South Asia, LAHORE, Jan 21 (OWSA) - "Western multinational companies stand to lose billions after the Pakistan government banned the promotion of baby foods Monday through a radical new ordinance to boost child nutrition and promote breast-feeding.
While passing the "Protection of Breast-Feeding and Child Nutrition Ordinance," the government in the south Asian nation released statistics showing that the country spent U.S $2.4 billion annually on the import of formula milk. This happens to be the maximum spent on this commodity by any country in the world.
According to the new law, " no person shall promote infant formula, or other products, including bottle fed complementary foods, as a replacement for breast milk."
" Prolonged use of formula milk is also linked to a high infant mortality rate, which, in the case of Pakistan, happens to be the highest in the region," stressed leading pediatrician Dr Shahzad Awan. He added that the 50 per cent reduction in the infant mortality rate in neighbouring Bangladesh in recent years, highlighted the importance of encouraging mothers to breast-feed.
Current statistics show Pakistan's infant mortality rate hovered at 95 per thousand live births with some 230,000 children dying of diarrheal diseases, and 136 per thousand deaths annually of children up to the age of five.
Surprisingly baby foods are much in demand here. As social activist Dr Firdous Khan informed, " At present, there are some 160 varieties of infant formula milk available in the country. Although breast-feeding is part of our cultural traditions, only 16 per cent of infants are exclusively breast-fed till the age of three months, while the number of children breast-fed till the age of two totals just 56 per cent."
[Bangladesh's 50 per cent reduction in infant mortality rate says it all. - JC]
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