So what you’re looking at, honestly, is that if your children don’t breast feed, your children have a 99.984 chance of avoiding cancer. If you do, they have a 99.99 percent chance of avoiding cancer. So, yeah, breast feeding is good, but don’t panic if you didn’t.
http://www.curesearch.org/Childhood-Cancer-Statistics/
- Childhood cancer remains the leading cause of death by disease among children in the United States.
- Every day, 42 children are diagnosed with cancer and the average age of diagnosis is 6.
- More than 40,000 children undergo treatment for cancer each year.
- 12% of children who are diagnosed with cancer do not survive.
- There are approximately 375,000 adult survivors of children's cancer in the United States, 60% of whom suffer devastating late effects such as secondary cancers, muscular difficulties and infertility.
If, as researchers find, a big percentage of these cancers are easily preventable just by breastfeeding, AND THE PARENTS KNOW THIS, how can they justify depriving their children of
basic disease prevention?