Breast-Fed Infants Born in Northern U.S. at High Risk for Rickets

re: Breast-Fed Infants Born in Northern U.S. at High Risk for Rickets

Josh Rubin — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 03:18:48 GMT

Breast milk has so much nutrients in it, it is almost a crime not to give it to a child. Of course there are situations why some women cannot. But if you can, I would. Breast milk is full of so much good cholesterol, good bacteria, etc that it helps the infants nervous system and all the other systems to develop. This is why bottled fed babies mostly get colic and other poopy disorders. There GI tract is not fully developed and cannot handle and detoxify all the toxins that are in soy and other formulas.

Another interesting point. When breast fed, you learn infant development skills of pushing. This involved a rythmic movement of the head, cervical spine and jaw. The head goes into flexion then extension, the cervical spine does the same and the jaw goes into protrusion and restrusion. These are neccessary survival movements and reflexes. When bottle fed, the infant just has to clench down on the nipple of the bottle and milk squirst out. So all the important movements are lost and the musculoskeletal and neurological development of all the muscles involvced is inhibited. This can lead to and has been shown to create many emotional disorders, as well as chronic neck issues, atlas issues, headaches, TMJ and so on. You see great examples of this in the book Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston A Price. Mariano Rocobado (leading TMJ specialist in the world) has proven in research that children who are not breast fed end up with TMJ dysfunctions, overbites, malocclusion issues and occulo-cervical dysfunctions.

re: Breast-Fed Infants Born in Northern U.S. at High Risk for Rickets

mmc88121 — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 23:20:14 GMT

I did notice that the darker pigmented children seemed to have more trouble than those with lighter pigmented skin. But considering most doctors will tell you to keep you infants indoors for most of the first six months I am not suprised at this finding. You need sunshine to have good skin.

mmc88121

re: Breast-Fed Infants Born in Northern U.S. at High Risk for Rickets

Leesh — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:47:18 GMT

The Weston A. Price foundation has wonderful resources for getting a sufficient amount of vitamin D. And as already mentioned, spend some time in the sun!
http://www.westonaprice.org/

re: Breast-Fed Infants Born in Northern U.S. at High Risk for Rickets

Russ Bianchi — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:07:59 GMT

Sound advice again from Dr. Mercola ...

HOWEVER ladies, do no consider this an open invitation to stop breast feeding your infants, which is vastly better for children nutritionally, their gasto-intestinal development, as well as natural immunity boosting, than non, or only partially, absorbable infant formulations commercially produced.

Argumentation, or any representations, that any infant formula or product in this category, is near as good nutritionally as mother's milk is NOT TRUE.

The best source of real nutrition or absorbable dietary supplementation needed for pre and post natal is REAL UNPROCESSED FOOD, high in natural nutrients; not pills, powders, gel caps, etc.

By the way, mother's milk costs a great deal less than canned pasteurized liquids, boiled concoctions, or instatized or spray dried powders.

Your child indeed requires your health to be optimum moms, or moms to be, in delivering breast milk, for at least one year after birth if at all possible (the World Health Organization strongly suggests two years, but as I have said before the pro infant formula lobby is so strong in brainwashing among OB/Gyn's, hospitals and birthing centers you rarely hear this in the USA).

Grandfathered and nonefficacious protocols of pregnancy vitamin pills, which are not absorbed at all, or only partially absorbed, with small compliance factors among expectant mothers, are a JOKE that the Big Pharma producers have hoisted for 50+ years on American pregnancies and tried to lock out all other better for you nutrition ideas.

As Dr. Mercola regularly suggests, safe vitamin D absorption comes from regular safe exposure to the sun and is FREE (weather permitting of course).