Posted on 02/06/2005 12:58:41 PM PST by billorites
...now I have the perfect excuse for my husband on the lights out policy.....roflmao.
Interesting that you should mention this. One of the states that received it was Utah, and I was one of the recipients. Had my cancer/mastectomy in 1994...
i read a study that said that breast feeding could possibly reduce the occurences of breast cancer, and this could be why it occurs less frequently in less developed countries, because they are generally having more children, and they breast feed them instead of using formula.
Are you disputing that?
"it must have something to do with industrialized society"
Or .. It's all America's fault! (as usual)
I still say it's connected to abortion or miscarriage in some way. One of the first reactions the body has to pregnancy occurs in the breast tissue - where the milk glands begin to prepare to feed the baby.
Over 500 years ago, what passed for scientists back then, used to call breast cancer the nuns disease, because only nuns got it. There is a definite link between breast cancer and not nursing children. Abortion comes into play because you can't nurse an aborted child.
How 'bout the facts that people live longer and we have better detection methods? This guy has been on a jihad against electricity for 20+ years. Every time he needs more funding, he comes out with a dubious link between electrical/magnetic fields and cancer. This brings out the enviro-weenies, hungry trial lawyers and utility haters in droves to give him cash.
Actually, it's just the opposite: one of the problems for health-care workers in undeveloped countries is to persuade women to breast-feed their children. They tend to want to give formula as being somehow more modern or healthier, when in fact formula is nowhere near as good for babies, doesn't provide the immune protection of breast milk, and often has to be prepared with water that's less than clean and/or put into bottles that aren't sterile. So to reduce the incidence of fatal infant diarrhea, health workers try to talk poor women into saving their resources to feed themselves better and giving breast milk to their babies.
FMCDH(BITS)
No not disputing, mocking.
Breast feeding makes a huge difference. For every year of nursing, it cuts your risk by 50%! It makes sense, as the breasts were doing what they were designed to do. As an interesting side note- nuns are known to have a higher rate of all female cancers, once presumes b/c they are not having babies.
Do you really think we have more stress today? Our stresses are very minor: are we going to get that promotion, be able to finance that new house, get the kids into college, etc. The stresses of the past, or in undeveloped countries today, were far more serious: is that evil warlord going to put my son's eyes out, burn my village, rape me, and torture my husband to death; are the Arabs going to sell me into slavery; is the crop going to fail so that we all starve to death; is a monsoon going to drown me and a half-million of my countrymen; are the wolves going to eat my kids. Different order of magnitude altogether!
Never heard of FIDs before. Is it like FSDOTM (Fatal Senatorial Diarrehea Of The Mouth) like ted the swimmer" kennedy and boxer have?
FMCDH(BITS)
I refuse to buy any Nestle product for that exact reason. They push formula in these countries. It's really terrible.
That was a pretty good band back in the late 70's early 80's....ELO......oh, A....abortions...never mind.
FMCDH(BITS)
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