The naked city - smh.com.au
April 22 2003
The Sun-Herald
The bodies of 750 women spell out "no war" in Byron.
Is it getting hot in here? Everyone is taking off their clothes - in magazines, on hillside or the city street. Zoe Johnson tracks the flesh fest.
Naked bodies are easy to find: at anti-war protests, on catwalks, boarding nude flights and promoting products, not to mention the limbs, breasts, bits and bums on the web, in art and on stage. Frankly, it's hip to strip....
Other nude news is Playboy's call for Starbucks' "coffee-making cuties" to pose in an upcoming issue, 31 couples tying the knot naked in a mass wedding at Montego Bay on Valentine's Day and Italian photographer Alberto Magliozzi's 2003 calendar of undressed women, inspired by the life of Christ, showing a bare-breasted "Virgin Mary" in heels in April, with September featuring a shot of the "Virgin Mary" breastfeeding. Despite nude calendars being a multi-million dollar business in Italy, many Italians are not impressed. Just across the border, in southern France, thousands of families still gather at the nudist town of Cap d'Agde...."
Tuesday, April 22, 2003
Vitamins for breastfeeding HIV positive mums boost babies
21 April 2003
Julian Meldrum
21 April 2003
Julian Meldrum
"The latest report from a Tanzanian study on giving vitamin supplements to breastfeeding women has found that providing multivitamins (B, C and E) to the women raised CD4 counts in their babies, regardless of HIV status, reducing the babies’ risk of diarrhoeal disease. The findings are published in the latest edition of Clinical Infectious Diseases
Previous reports of the same study found that providing vitamins B, C and E to these mothers significantly reduced both HIV transmission to the babies and mortality in the first two years of life, when the mothers’ immunological or nutritional status was poor. In contrast, providing vitamin A to the mothers appeared to increase HIV transmission rates and was therefore discontinued, although it now seems it reduced the risk of pneumonia among the babies whose mothers were given vitamin A. ..."
21 April 2003
Julian Meldrum
21 April 2003
Julian Meldrum
"The latest report from a Tanzanian study on giving vitamin supplements to breastfeeding women has found that providing multivitamins (B, C and E) to the women raised CD4 counts in their babies, regardless of HIV status, reducing the babies’ risk of diarrhoeal disease. The findings are published in the latest edition of Clinical Infectious Diseases
Previous reports of the same study found that providing vitamins B, C and E to these mothers significantly reduced both HIV transmission to the babies and mortality in the first two years of life, when the mothers’ immunological or nutritional status was poor. In contrast, providing vitamin A to the mothers appeared to increase HIV transmission rates and was therefore discontinued, although it now seems it reduced the risk of pneumonia among the babies whose mothers were given vitamin A. ..."
Monday, April 21, 2003
Program enables moms to breast-feed at work
Kerry Fehr-Snyder
The Arizona Republic
Apr. 21, 2003 12:00 AM
"Kelly Scranton has a job perk that she wouldn't trade for everything - permission to nurse her newborn at work.
As office chief for the state health lab's newborn screening program, the 33-year-old first-time mom brought her son Sean to work three days a week so she could nurse him at the office until recently.
She got so good at it that she could read paperwork and type on her computer while he ate. She even discreetly nursed him at staff meetings.
"The first week was a little stressful," she said. "I didn't want him to cry - ever. Not even make a sound."
But over time, she relaxed and her baby turned into a morale booster for the staff, she said.
"Babies just seem to cheer everyone up," Scranton added.
The nursing mother program went from pilot to permanent at the Arizona Department of Health Services in October, said coordinator Mary Ellen Rivero...."
Kerry Fehr-Snyder
The Arizona Republic
Apr. 21, 2003 12:00 AM
"Kelly Scranton has a job perk that she wouldn't trade for everything - permission to nurse her newborn at work.
As office chief for the state health lab's newborn screening program, the 33-year-old first-time mom brought her son Sean to work three days a week so she could nurse him at the office until recently.
She got so good at it that she could read paperwork and type on her computer while he ate. She even discreetly nursed him at staff meetings.
"The first week was a little stressful," she said. "I didn't want him to cry - ever. Not even make a sound."
But over time, she relaxed and her baby turned into a morale booster for the staff, she said.
"Babies just seem to cheer everyone up," Scranton added.
The nursing mother program went from pilot to permanent at the Arizona Department of Health Services in October, said coordinator Mary Ellen Rivero...."
Sunday, April 20, 2003
Chemical buildup may cause brain damage
Los Angeles Times
April 20, 2003
"Toxic chemicals used as flame retardants are rapidly building up in the bodies of people and wildlife around the world, approaching levels in American women and their babies that could harm developing brains, new research shows.
The chemicals, PBDEs, or polybrominated diphenyl ethers, are used to reduce the spread of fire in an array of plastic and foam products in homes and offices, including upholstered furniture, building materials, televisions, computers and other electronic equipment...."
This year, the European Union banned the two PBDE compounds that have been shown to accumulate in human bodies.
Some European industries had already begun to phase out the chemicals, and levels in the breast milk of European women have begun to decline.
Los Angeles Times
April 20, 2003
"Toxic chemicals used as flame retardants are rapidly building up in the bodies of people and wildlife around the world, approaching levels in American women and their babies that could harm developing brains, new research shows.
The chemicals, PBDEs, or polybrominated diphenyl ethers, are used to reduce the spread of fire in an array of plastic and foam products in homes and offices, including upholstered furniture, building materials, televisions, computers and other electronic equipment...."
This year, the European Union banned the two PBDE compounds that have been shown to accumulate in human bodies.
Some European industries had already begun to phase out the chemicals, and levels in the breast milk of European women have begun to decline.
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