Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Breast Feeding and Keeping Children Healthy

While the normal subject of this blog revolves around natural breast enlargement for women, every so often I see a news item about breasts that I want to share with you.

Many studies have shown that while a baby is nursing, he or she is less likely to catch some diseases because of particular immune agents in Mother's Milk that helps fight off infections in the nursing child.

Now its looks as if breast fed children are healthier, even after the breast feeding ends.

Two scientific studies recently reported that children and adolescents with appendicitis were less likely to have been breast fed.

It seems that breast feeding stimulates a more tolerant lymphoid tissue at the base of the appendix and this could provide protection against acute appendicitis. The immune components of human milk provide an antigen avoidance system that can decrease the severity of infection and probably the inflammatory reactions associated with it.

In other words, our breast milk instructs our children's immune system how to better fight off the infection associated with appendicitis and have less inflammation. Thus children that breast feed are less likely to develop acute appendicitis later in life.

All in all, I would say that, no matter what size they are, OUR BREASTS ARE AMAZING!

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