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news:8fvkjg$5q8$1@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com... > And furthermore, just WHY would the benefit diminish? I mean, let's take Let's say you eat carrots daily for a year, and for argument's sake, nothing Same with breastmilk. It continues to be an excellent food. However MOST Anna
I am pro-breastfeeding, and I do originate in the Breastfeeding newsgroup.
> 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.
However, this one is always coming up, and the answer is this:
else. Obviously the nutrients within the carrot are vital, because it is the
sole constituent of your diet. Now let's say that after a year you start to
consume a normal, healthy diet. You continue to eat the carrots, but they
are less important to your diet, because you are consuming other things as
well.
children WILL be eating a wide variety of solid foods by the age of 1. So
although the nutritional value of breastmilk per se does not diminish, the
importance of breastmilk as a provider of nutrients does, quite naturally.
Some might also suggest that after the age of 1, breastmilk is NOT actually
THE perfect food for your child. It is a good food, certainly, and there is
no reason to wean at that point. But it lacks iron, and also if your 1 year
old was surviving solely on breastmilk, you might have concerns that they
were not learning the socialisation aspects that solid food brings.