Utilitarian Boobs

[BigV]

It's sooo good and good for you. And your baby Now that's utility!

Study: Breast-Feeding Decreases Cancer Risk

The new findings are particularly relevant to women who give birth after age 25 and eventually have three or more children. These women have double the risk of the aggressive and hard-to-treat hormone-negative breast cancers.

"This two-fold increased risk went away when we looked only at women who breast-fed," Ursin says. "They were no longer at increased risk of breast cancer."

The mechanism is unclear. Some experts think it's because a woman is less likely to ovulate while she's breast-feeding. The fewer times a woman ovulates, the lower her risk of breast cancer.

Whatever the reason, the bottom line is clear: Breast-feeding offers broad protection against both major types of breast cancer in women of all ages.

Like I said, Bonus!

[jinx]

Breast Milk Sugars Give Infants a Protective Coat

A large part of human milk cannot be digested by babies and seems to have a purpose quite different from infant nutrition — that of influencing the composition of the bacteria in the infant’s gut...

Many toxic bacteria and viruses bind to human cells by docking with the surface sugars. But they will bind to the complex sugars in milk instead...

let us see the genius of the strategy — mothers are recruiting another life-form to baby-sit their baby...

Such findings have made the three researchers keenly aware that every component of milk probably has a special role. “It’s all there for a purpose, though we’re still figuring out what that purpose is,” Dr. Mills said. “So for God’s sake, please breast-feed.”

[Flint]

So... what I might conclude is...

:::gears turning:::

:::thought slowly forming:::

That... the functions of our body, that millions of years of evolution have carefully fine-tuned... have lead to a situation where there are certain things that we SHOULD do, that would be... GOOD for us? One might say, "healthy" decisions?

:::SCOFF::: That's not what TV commercials tell me, so that can't be true.

[Spexxvet]

Waitress (to Jordan): I haven’t seen you in a while.
Elliot (to waitress): Oh, she just had a baby.
Waitress: Well then, how can you be drinking? Aren’t you breast-feeding?
Jordan: I haven’t decided. Were you breast-fed?
Waitress: Of course I was.
Jordan: That is so interesting. ‘Cuz you’re a slaggy buttinski who ended up becoming a waitress for a living. Maybe breast feeding isn’t the answer…