Breast is best, was Re: Internet survey - should mothers breastfeed in public? - misc.kids.breastfeeding

Message from discussion Breast is best, was Re: Internet survey - should mothers breastfeed in public?

Naomi Lynne Pardue

More options May 23 2000, 5:00 pm

Newsgroups: alt.parenting.solutions, alt.support.breastfeeding, misc.kids.breastfeeding

From: Naomi Lynne Pardue <npar...@steel.ucs.indiana.edu>

Date: 2000/05/23

Subject: Re: Breast is best, was Re: Internet survey - should mothers breastfeed in public?

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In misc.kids.breastfeeding stephanie6...@my-deja.com wrote:
> If I eat a well balanced meal, I am giving my body proper nutrition. If
> I eat a McDonald's hamburger, I am denying my body "proper" nutrition.
> And it is never going to kill me.

If you ate McDonalds hamburgers at every meal, every day, for months on
end, yes, it could kill you. (Not directly, but by leaving you weak enough
from malnutrition that you'd be a sitting duck for infection.)

Naomi

> In article <392A09F0....@armory.com>,
> Steve <rste...@armory.com> wrote:
>> image wrote:

>> > "Naomi Lynne Pardue" <npar...@steel.ucs.indiana.edu> wrote in
> message
>> > You shouldn't have to stretch the truth!
>> > Formula does not kill! Are you actually hearing (or seeing) what
> you have
>> > said, it makes no sense.

>> > > > I can't see attempting rational discussion with someone who
> will stretch
>> > > > reality so far.....

>> > > And I can't see attempting rational discussion with someone who
> can't
>> > > understand the concept of 'analogy.'

>> > You have to realize the smoking and formula are not "analgous". It
> is just
>> > stupid to consider it as such.
>> -------------------
>> Formula is depriving a child of proper nutrition, or, in effect,
>> starving them, whereas smoking is actively poisoning them, the first
> isa
>> crime of ommision, to whit, neglect, the latter commission, assault,
> but
>> both harm children and kill some of them, statistically speaking,
> which
>> is an entirely valid criticism. If more children have bronchitis and
>> asthma from not receiving breast milk, and some die, they still die!!
>> Steve

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