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Sunday, May 20, 2012

Nestle's obesity campaigns

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"And now the whole country, indeed, the whole world seemed suddenly to be caught up in a mad chocolate buying spree..."        ...
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Friday, April 13, 2012

"Free" infant formula

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"If it's free it's for me ."  A motto I have lived by since my early twenties.  Obviously in this world there are ma...
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Sunday, March 18, 2012

Nuclear accidents and breastfeeding-part 2-What do we know?

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How do we know when something is not fit to drink, touch, eat or breathe?  What happens when that something is invisible to the eye.  We c...
Friday, March 16, 2012

Nuclear accidents and breastfeeding, part 1

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Deep River, a memory that fades in and fades out.  I look at the old photos of my family and remember the joys of childhood.  The freed...
Saturday, March 3, 2012

The Tyranny of Formula-Feeding, second verse

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"Shares in Nestle were up 1 per cent to 55 francs at the start of Zurich trading Thursday (February 16, 2012 )" ...
Tuesday, February 28, 2012

The Tyranny of Formula-Feeding

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I just read, "The Tyranny of Breast-Feeding," by Elisabeth Badinter in the March 2012 Harper's Magazine.  It...
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Sunday, February 19, 2012

A cruel, cold wind is a'blowing

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I shiver.  The wind continues to blow.  The tree tops sway and I smell something new, ozone?  Change, change is a'com...
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Valerie W. McClain
How does one describe oneself to those who landed on this page in this virtual library called the internet? I was born in Canada and moved to the USA when I was six years old. I graduated from the State University College of New York at Potsdam with a BA, majoring in political science. Got married, got divorced. Got married again, had children, got divorced. I birthed all my babies at home, breastfed them, and became a La Leche League leader for 10 years. I became an a IBCLC (International Board Certified Lactation Consultant) in 1991 and retired that credential in the fall of 2011. I was employed by the WIC Program for 4 years in Volusia County, Florida. In 1998 I began to question the reasoning behind denying hiv positive women the right to breastfeed. In my research for answers I stumbled upon a human milk component patent to be used to treat hiv/aids patients. Thus began my quest to understand why so much of the real knowledge of human milk is buried.
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