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Summary: Great, Informational Book!
Review: This book is great for general knowledge about breastfeeding and formula feeding and how they both started. I would recommend this book to anyone in the world. Those who have children and those who don't could benefit from the knowledge contained between those pages.
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Summary: provocative book
Review: This book is very inspiring as well as being very well researched. It is the perfect follow-up to Gabrielle Palmer's Politics of Breastfeeding. It documents the continued violations of the World Health Organization's Code for the Marketing of Breast Milk Substitutes by formula companies while describing the history of infant feeding practises around the world. A very provocative read
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Summary: Required Reading
Review: This book should be required reading for all people. Not only does it promote breastfeeding in new mothers, and encourage them to continue, but it helps others overcome our societal bias against breastfeeding. Some places ban breastfeeding on grounds that it is indecent exposure! This fear almost prompted me to quit nursing my daughter, but I am now proud to be seen nursing her in public, and I hope that promotes awareness that there is nothing dirty about feeding your baby the best food available. This book goes a long way to prove that point, and to topple the formula industry's 70 years of lies. There is so much more to breastfeeding than "feeding" and I am grateful to this book for helping me overcome my anxieties. Nursing has turned out to be the most wonderful experience of my life, and I have this book in part to thank.
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Summary: Required Reading
Review: This book should be required reading for all people. Not only does it promote breastfeeding in new mothers, and encourage them to continue, but it helps others overcome our societal bias against breastfeeding. Some places ban breastfeeding on grounds that it is indecent exposure! This fear almost prompted me to quit nursing my daughter, but I am now proud to be seen nursing her in public, and I hope that promotes awareness that there is nothing dirty about feeding your baby the best food available. This book goes a long way to prove that point, and to topple the formula industry's 70 years of lies. There is so much more to breastfeeding than "feeding" and I am grateful to this book for helping me overcome my anxieties. Nursing has turned out to be the most wonderful experience of my life, and I have this book in part to thank.
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Summary: An Education, should be requisite for teenagers
Review: This book should be required reading for all teenagers as part of their economics classes, their sociology classes, and their health classes. The subject matter in this book covers all of this range. Shown is the health implications for babies who are denied their mother's milk. This is especially important for those babies who are artificially fed in undeveloped countries where there is no access to clean water or sanitation. For those babies, artificial feeding is not only a substandard choice, it is a deadly one. Further, this book illustrates why the chioce to artificially feed infants is being made in more often in these countries, dealing especially with the lies the formula companies perpetuate. Readers will understand how a multibillion dollar business has been developed on the backs of babies.Readers will also learn, probably for the first time, that the behaviour of formula companies has become so evil that there are a number of international organizations that have ongoing efforts to save babies from the deadly consequences of the formula manufacturer's lies. Many will be surprised to read of a decades old boycott, and an ethical marketing code developed by the World Health Organization, both of which have been flaunted and ignored by the formula manufacturers. Most readers will be familiar with movies and novels that deal with drug manufacturers making deadly substances and knowingly hiding the information, even at the risk of many deaths, in order to reap the profits. Milk, Money, and Madness will detail such a story. It's all true and much more evil and insidious than anyone will ever suspect until they read the book.
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Summary: An Education, should be requisite for teenagers
Review: This book should be required reading for all teenagers as part of their economics classes, their sociology classes, and their health classes. The subject matter in this book covers all of this range. Shown is the health implications for babies who are denied their mother's milk. This is especially important for those babies who are artificially fed in undeveloped countries where there is no access to clean water or sanitation. For those babies, artificial feeding is not only a substandard choice, it is a deadly one. Further, this book illustrates why the chioce to artificially feed infants is being made in more often in these countries, dealing especially with the lies the formula companies perpetuate. Readers will understand how a multibillion dollar business has been developed on the backs of babies. Readers will also learn, probably for the first time, that the behaviour of formula companies has become so evil that there are a number of international organizations that have ongoing efforts to save babies from the deadly consequences of the formula manufacturer's lies. Many will be surprised to read of a decades old boycott, and an ethical marketing code developed by the World Health Organization, both of which have been flaunted and ignored by the formula manufacturers. Most readers will be familiar with movies and novels that deal with drug manufacturers making deadly substances and knowingly hiding the information, even at the risk of many deaths, in order to reap the profits. Milk, Money, and Madness will detail such a story. It's all true and much more evil and insidious than anyone will ever suspect until they read the book.
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Summary: This is a fabulous, thought-provoking book!
Review: This book takes a historical and cultural look at breastfeeding and formula-feeding. Fact-based and well-researched, this book is full of thought-provoking information and information that is not usually made public knowledge due to politics and profit interests. Sections cover: * Breastfeeding customs around the world * Wet nursing, surrogate feeding and healing qualities of breastmilk * Cow's milk is for cows * Artificial feeding * The global search for formula sales * Women and work Of particular interest is the United States' historical/cultural lack of support of global breastfeeding policies and the strength given to formula companies to dictate the health of America's babies.
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Summary: Dia Micheals has her data down pat
Review: This is very well researched and should inspire anyone to believe that breastmilk is the only way to feed a baby. After reading this book, anyone will become a staunch breastfeeding advocate and will cringe to see a bottle in a baby's mouth, diaper bag, or a formula ad appearing anywhere. I love the information on how respectfully women are treated around the world, expected to nurse and nurture their babies- and then contrast that with how poorly the US society treats women. still! Six weeks isnt' long enough for moms and new babies and Dia points out the wonderful ways that the rest of the industrialised world copes with the reality of nurturing the next generation
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