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Milk Lactation - Articles
Lactation: Mother’s Milk
by
findingeve
Posted
Sat 13 Jun 2009 12:12am
So, since we talked about conventional cow milk a couple of days ago as well as soy and organic milks, I thought we should spare a thought for human-produced milk. I have no firsthand experience with human lactation, so please feel free to jump in with your two cents! Many new mothers will tell you, though, that they did not realize how dif ...
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Natural Foods That Cure Breast Milk Deficiency
by
Sonzy
Posted
Wed 27 Jul 2011 5:39am
There are many everyday foods which provide a remedial cure for breast milk deficiency such as fennel, herb tea, garlic, onion and almonds. These foods do help, but a healthy diet is the most important thing you need to avoid ever facing breast milk deficiency. It is very important that every lactating mother should take good care of thei ...
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Human Milk Sharing
by
NicoleD
Posted
Fri 29 Mar 2013 8:00am
Perhaps you are an adoptive mama for a baby who had been born into special circumstances. And, because of that, perhaps you believe that, more than usual, your baby could benefit from mama milk.
Perhaps you are one of the select few you truly cannot nurse your baby and really want all of the benefits of breastmilk for your child.
Perha ...
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What's So Wrong with Human Breast Milk Ice Cream?
by
Starre V.
Posted
Thu 02 Oct 2008 12:22pm
PETA – never one to shy away from controversy – stirred the pot yet again this week when the animal rights organization wrote a letter to Ben & Jerry’s asking them to use human breast milk instead of cow’s milk in their ice cream. PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) had heard about a Swiss restaurateur who recently began fea ...
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PCOS and Milk Supply
by
Debra ..
Posted
Fri 17 Jun 2011 12:00am
Last year, I posted about Carbohydrates and PCOS (and fertility) and at the end of the post, I said there would be a follow up about PCOS and Breastfeeding. I received a lot of positive feedback about that post and inquiries about where the follow-up post was....so here it is!
PCOS disrupts a delicate balance of hormones that affe ...
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Dairy milk and dioxins
by
russelleaton
Posted
Mon 24 Oct 2005 12:00am
Linda Fitzpatrick (Rest Havens, Hilltown, Carrigaline, Co Cork, UK) writes that 'cows’ milk is ideal for assessing dioxin and dioxin-like pollutant levels because these compounds adhere to fat and, in the case of cows, are transferred to and eliminated in the milk of the lactating animal.' In my book The Milk Imperative I give evidence ...
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Reduced allergy milk? Bad News!
by
mike santoro
Posted
Tue 02 Oct 2012 10:44am
When I read an article in today's health news titled, " Cow named Daisy makes reduced allergy milk ", only one thing comes to mind; once again man is meddling where he shouldn't be.
Cows produce milk, like all female mammals, for one reason and one reason only, to feed their young. This milk, regardless of what mammal it comes from, is pack ...
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