If all babies were fed the milk nature designed for them, there would be better health - something to think about during World Breast-feeding Week, Aug. 1-7.
Among the benefits are fewer doctor visits and ER visits, fewer hospital readmissions due to infections (50 percent fewer according to the July issue of Pediatrics), less childhood diabetes, less childhood obesity, less childhood cancers. Our children would have healthier lives and be smarter, too.
You see, babies are born with immature immune systems, unprepared for life in the outside world. Breast milk is designed to "finish off" that immune system, and then continue to support it through the first year or so of life so that our young are fully protected.
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