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From: "Emily Roysdon" <em...@artoo.net.remove>
Subject: Re: Use of the word "Nazi" WAS: Re: Breast is best, was Re: Internet survey - should mothers breastfeed in public?
Date: 2000/05/17
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Larry McMahan <mcma...@lucy.cup.hp.com> wrote:

: In misc.kids.breastfeeding atarigalen <kNOkS...@uia.net.invalid> wrote:
:
: : 2)  As a child develops, the benefits of breastmilk lessen.
: : Nursing past the first year yields practically no benefit
: : compared to weaning after the first year.  Even at six months
: : there isn't much benefit to the child from a health/nutrition
: : standpoint.
:
: There is insufficient research to support the claim that there
: is no benefit to breastfeeding past one year, and there is SOME
: research that contradicts it, showing some benefit for nursing
: up to two years.  (I know of no studies past two years at this
: point.)  This is obviously an area where more research is
: indicated, but we cannot say that there is no benefit past one
: year.

And furthermore, just WHY would the benefit diminish?  I mean, let's take
carrots, a healthy food; if I eat carrots daily for a year, do they suddenly
stop giving me vitamins and cease to be healthy because I've been eating
them for a year?  Maybe I'm missing something here, but I don't see how the
perfect food could become less beneficial, provided the child is eating a
healthy companion diet as needed.

--
Emily, wife to Jason since 1997
mama to Noah Joshua (4/8/98) & "lil butterfly" (due 6/19/00)
http://emily.artoo.net

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