Breastfeeding Steadily Gains Traction Against Obesity
The discussion of the effects of C-section births on a child’s development and how breastfeeding affects the baby’s microbiome continues.
Everything You Know About Breastfeeding Is Wrong, Continued Again
Following the two previous posts, we go deeper into two sub-topics: birth by surgery and the suspected reason why that seems to contribute to childhood obesity.
Everything You Know About Breastfeeding Is Wrong, Continued
We continue our discussion about the actual expense involved in breastfeeding, which is believed to help prevent obesity.
Everything You Know About Breastfeeding Is Wrong
Baby formula’s current, heavily politicized supply chain problem presents an opportunity to make several points when planning to breastfeed.
Breastfeeding Roundup
Politically and medically significant, it’s a public health issue and also a very personal and extremely emotional one. There is more to be said about breastfeeding, babies, and childhood obesity, so here are a few interesting items from around the Interweb. Actor Charlie Sheen’s alleged misbehavior has been saturating the media. One of the legal […]
Breastfeeding, Health, and Childhood Obesity
New research comes along every day, and breastfeeding is currently a topic of much concern (we have been exploring some of its angles on this blog). The latest interesting findings come from the Colorado School of Public Health, reported on for BusinessWeek by Robert Preidt. It’s one of those “bad news, good news” scenarios. The […]
The Many Voices in a Breastfeeding Debate
The Let’s Move! program and First Lady Michelle Obama have plenty of ideas about ending childhood obesity, and one of them is the importance of breastfeeding. Yesterday we brought up some of the problems encountered by the FLOTUS (First Lady of the United States.) The public may experience either strong feelings or ambivalence, both of […]
A Probiotic, and a GLP-1 Non-Substitute
The longer the subject is pursued, the more it seems that debunking berberine has become a minor industry.
Ethics, Public Opinion, and Lived Experience
Utilizing social media, women have taken it upon themselves to communicate with each other, sharing good news and bad news.
GLP-1 Drugs and Babies
What is going on with the relationship between the GLP-1 genre of weight-loss medications and the creation of new humans?