If you’ve ever had a hard time articulating your objections to letting children watch TV, watch this. You’re now prepared!
Dimitri Christakis is a pediatrician, parent, and researcher whose influential findings are helping identify optimal media exposure for children.
The secret to mother-baby bonding might be breast milk, according to new research that determines that breast-feeding mothers are more likely than formula-feeding moms to bond with their infants in the months after they’re born. They also demonstrate stronger brain responses when they hear their baby cry, according to a study published in the May issue of the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.
Researchers at the Child Study Center at Yale University divided moms into two groups — nine breast-feeders and eight formula-feeders — and performed functional MRIs (fMRI) on them about a month after their babies were born.
While participants lay in a scanner and listened to clips of their own baby and an unknown child crying, researchers tracked what areas of their brains lit up. All mothers’ brains were more active when listening to their own baby’s cry, but the changes in the breast-feeding mothers’ relevant brain regions were far more significant.
Breastfeeding is the least expensive and most effective way to improve and protect your baby’s health, and now a first-of-its-kind study also suggests that breastfeeding may have a direct impact on a mother’s brain, promoting ‘maternal behavior’ and increasing emotional bonding between the mother and child.
This is not altogether surprising, since breastfeeding promotes the increased release of oxytocin, also known as the “love hormone,” or “bonding hormone.”
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Time Magazine May 20, 2011
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry April 18, 2011; [Epub ahead of print]
Medical News Today May 30, 2011
Pediatrics May 29, 2011 [Epub ahead of print]
Birth: Issues in Perinatal Care May 20, 2011 [Epub ahead of print]
(By Ethan A. Huff, NaturalNews)
A new study pre-published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives confirms that fluoridated water causes brain damage in children. The most recent among 23 others pertaining to fluoride and lowered IQ levels, the new study so strongly proves that fluoride is a dangerous, brain-destroying toxin that experts say it could be the one that finally ends water fluoridation.
“This is the 24th study that has found this association,” Read the rest of this entry »
♥ Our children go to school to be taught by people who have absolutely no idea about what our future could possibly look like.
♥ Our children study for jobs that do not exist yet.
♥ Our children cannot relate to the mediums used in schools because their outside world is increasingly technological. Chalk/white boards and lectures in the classroom; fast-feed internet, texting, music and tv at home.
♥ Everyone who has spent time in school knows that they learned more outside of school than inside. We grow up and jump right back into the same broken system that we have no faith in.
♥ The system failed us.
♥ The system is failing our children.
♥ The cycle continues.
I remember the time my kids spent in a Montessori school. It was only for one year, but at the end of their time there they had learned so much. Time creeps up on us all, and later on I found myself looking at my kids’ homework thinking, “You did this stuff in Montessori with no problems, and now you’re behind?!” The public system UNtaught my kids!
This is just the beginning. This is the part you can easily agree with and then talk casually with your friends about. The real meat and potatoes of this is below, if you’re hungry… Read the rest of this entry »
A new Canadian-led study concludes that immunizing nursing-home workers does nothing to cut the number of confirmed influenza cases among the homes’ elderly residents.
Coming at the end of the largest flu-vaccination campaign in Canadian history, the review of previous studies calls for stepped-up research into alternative, lower-tech ways to combat the virus, such as improved hand washing.
The new paper’s co-author is Dr. Tom Jefferson, a British epidemiologist who heads vaccine research for the respected Cochrane Collaboration — and who has earned a reputation as a scientific dissident for his outspoken criticism of flu vaccination.
In media interviews last year, Dr. Jefferson was quoted as saying he “can’t see any reason” for vaccinating anyone against flu — arguing the shots did nothing to save lives — and that most influenza-vaccine studies are “rubbish.”
Dr. Mercola’s Comments:
Last year was probably one of the largest flu vaccination campaigns ever, not only in Canada but across the world. And as so many other studies, this latest meta-analysis by the respected Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews also concludes that it may have been in vain. Read the rest of this entry »
I have a friend who is doing some school work in the medical field and as a result they’re being told to vaccinate themselves and provide documentation to the school. The school wants to see the complete up to date child-hood immunization record + the seasonal flu vaccination + the H1N1 vaccination. Anyone who does not show this documentation is told that they will not be allowed to continue their education.
When I heard that I naturally said “Bull sh¡t!” It is probably fresh in everyone’s mind that the United States medical workers are being forced to take the vaccinations, and if they refuse they’re told to sign a waiver which unknowingly doubles as their resignation, or they’re straight-up fired. This is not my opinion, this is documented fact – look it up. In fact, let that be a blanket statement throughout this article – look up whatever you want because everything I am putting in here has a source (whether it be internet, newspaper, television, radio or actual phone calls I personally made. Try that one sometime.)
The Public Health Agency of Canada states in their Canadian National Report on Immunization, 1996, the following: Read the rest of this entry »
Hi there
I am writing about the Medical Program at School Name in Town. I have what I feel is an important question regarding my personal health and safety and as such I wish to remain anonymous for the time being. I hope that request does not interfere with the addressing of my concerns.
I have been informed that students are required to produce immunization records that are up to date as well as required to take the seasonal flu vaccine as well as the H1N1 vaccine, and students who do not comply with this will not be able to continue their studies. My concern is that I will not vaccinate myself and I will not exit the school willingly.
I have done some preliminary research into this and I am at a point where I feel it is time to contact the school directly with my concern. What I am looking for with this letter is: Read the rest of this entry »
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