lightNlife
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My mom was given the same "breast milk is better" hoopla from the lactivists. She was unable to breast feed me for as long as she wanted because I was in the hospital. With my sister (no CF) she breast fed her and she's got more food allergies than anyone in our family. So there goes that idea.
I wanted to point out also that from an evolutionary standpoint, our bodies are really only "programmed" to need a lot of milk at that very young age. That is why so many people become lactose intolerant. Over the centuries, as people have made milk a more prominent part of their diets, we have adapted.
There's not enough information either way to prove that breast feeding is better. Everyone's body is different, and the prevalence of allergies (particularly in industrialized countries) is largely an environmental response and not necessarily tied to nutrition or lack thereof. People who try to link breastfeeding with allergies should remember the first rule of statistics which is 'correlation does NOT imply causation."
While I'm glad there are some who happen to have fewer allergies associated with their CF, it's highly improbable (if not impossible) for something non-genetic to have any sort of impact on something genetic. If a person has fewer allergies and believes the cause to have been linked to breastfeeding, then the breastfeeding is having an impact on something secondary to the genetic predisposition of that person.
Sidebar: remember is that lactose intolerance and milk allergies are two different things.
I wanted to point out also that from an evolutionary standpoint, our bodies are really only "programmed" to need a lot of milk at that very young age. That is why so many people become lactose intolerant. Over the centuries, as people have made milk a more prominent part of their diets, we have adapted.
There's not enough information either way to prove that breast feeding is better. Everyone's body is different, and the prevalence of allergies (particularly in industrialized countries) is largely an environmental response and not necessarily tied to nutrition or lack thereof. People who try to link breastfeeding with allergies should remember the first rule of statistics which is 'correlation does NOT imply causation."
While I'm glad there are some who happen to have fewer allergies associated with their CF, it's highly improbable (if not impossible) for something non-genetic to have any sort of impact on something genetic. If a person has fewer allergies and believes the cause to have been linked to breastfeeding, then the breastfeeding is having an impact on something secondary to the genetic predisposition of that person.
Sidebar: remember is that lactose intolerance and milk allergies are two different things.