[OT] - Mother's Milk - the next superdrug?

I found this article in Science News to be just fascinating:
http://sciencenews.org/articles/20061209/bob8.asp

We've all heard that mother's milk contains antibodies that help
suppress infection in their infants, and that infants who nurse
get fewer illnesses and bouts of diarrhea than infants who are
fed on cow's milk or formula.

This article talks about research that shows that it can do a
whole lot more, and some of those benefits may extend to adults.
These include combating food-borne illness, particularly those
that cause diarrhea, improving digestion through synergy with
beneficial bacteria, fighting inflammation, boosting immune
activity and killing cancer cells.

The researchers don't envision human dairies, but they are
working on ways of genetically engineering the production of the
components of human milk as their roles in fighting disease are
identified.

Some thoughts... most humans stop drinking breast milk by age
four or sooner; would ingestion of some of these components be in
any way harmful to adults? Would lactating mothers be in danger
of being kidnapped by people with cancer? Will this research
ONCE AND FOR ALL get the laws changed to allow women to
breast-feed their babies in public?

FurPaw
--
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FurPaw <furrealpawdog@gmail.com> wrote in
news:c7mdnTg_dOzu7RXYnZ2dnUVZ_qOpnZ2d@comcast.com:

> Will this research
> ONCE AND FOR ALL get the laws changed to allow women to
> breast-feed their babies in public?
>

They can't where you live? Lots of people do here - a towel over the
shoulder, and the baby gets fed.

Chak

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If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
--Tallulah Bankhead

Chakolate wrote:
> FurPaw <furrealpawdog@gmail.com> wrote in
> news:c7mdnTg_dOzu7RXYnZ2dnUVZ_qOpnZ2d@comcast.com:
>
>> Will this research
>> ONCE AND FOR ALL get the laws changed to allow women to
>> breast-feed their babies in public?

> They can't where you live?

Yeah, they can. But there are still four states that don't have
laws specifically enabling breast feeding in public or exempting
it from public indecency laws.

http://www.ncsl.org/programs/health/breast50.htm

What did you think about the article?

FurPaw

Lots of people do here - a towel over the
> shoulder, and the baby gets fed.
>
> Chak
>


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FurPaw <furrealpawdog@gmail.com> wrote in
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> What did you think about the article?
>

I thought it was fascinating but I experienced a cold chill when I read
the bit about further testing being turned over to pharmaceutical
companies.

Yeah, I know, it's standard procedure, but I wonder whether anything will
come of it.

Chak

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If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
--Tallulah Bankhead

Chakolate wrote the following on 12/19/2006 8:41 PM:
> FurPaw <furrealpawdog@gmail.com> wrote in
> news:c7mdnTg_dOzu7RXYnZ2dnUVZ_qOpnZ2d@comcast.com:
>
>> Will this research
>> ONCE AND FOR ALL get the laws changed to allow women to
>> breast-feed their babies in public?
>>
>
> They can't where you live? Lots of people do here - a towel over the
> shoulder, and the baby gets fed.

Not all babies respond well to a towel over their head... :-) With my
youngest I found that wearing a T-shirt that would stay up on its own was
more modest than a loose shirt. YD would push the blouse *way* up but
leave the T-Shirt alone.

And even states that specifically permit breastfeeding in public are
populated by store clerks and security guards who will throw out mothers
who try it.

Karen R, former LLL Leader

Karen R. wrote:

> Not all babies respond well to a towel over their head... :-) With my
> youngest I found that wearing a T-shirt that would stay up on its own
> was more modest than a loose shirt. YD would push the blouse *way* up
> but leave the T-Shirt alone.
>
> And even states that specifically permit breastfeeding in public are
> populated by store clerks and security guards who will throw out mothers
> who try it.

Not to mention flight attendants... and although Delta and
Freedom acknowledge that the passenger who was kicked off a plane
for breast-feeding her toddler was within her rights, they are
arguing tooth and nail that there is no basis for her complaint
to the Vermont Civil Rights Commission.
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/a...10/1009&theme=

Tolerance of ANYTHING seems to be at an all-time low:
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?sec...rld&id=4783729

"In September, Seth Stein, a London interior designer returning
from his vacation in Turks and Caicos, was put in a chokehold and
physically pinned to his seat by another passenger on an American
Airlines flight. Stein's crime: He used an iPod, went to the
lavatory and his tan made him appear "Arab."

FurPaw
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Better dead than Red.

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FurPaw <furrealpawdog@gmail.com> wrote in
news:lrWdnWaZSKcxwxTYnZ2dnUVZ_q6vnZ2d@comcast.com:

> "In September, Seth Stein, a London interior designer returning
> from his vacation in Turks and Caicos, was put in a chokehold and
> physically pinned to his seat by another passenger on an American
> Airlines flight. Stein's crime: He used an iPod, went to the
> lavatory and his tan made him appear "Arab."
>

This one doesn't bother me so much, since it was another passenger
overreacting (and showing his own bigotry).

These bother me much more:

(quote)
One passenger on a Delta flight from Los Angeles to Salt Lake City was
arrested for leaving his seat to go to the lavatory less than 30 minutes
before landing (due to the incident, air marshals ordered all passengers
to put their hands on their heads for the rest of the flight). And an
Orthodox Jewish man was kicked off an Air Canada flight for praying,
which attendants claim was making other passengers nervous.
(end quote)

Arrested for trying to go to the bathroom? Air marshals ordering all
passengers to keep their hands on their heads? Kicked off for praying???

Chak

--
If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
--Tallulah Bankhead

Chakolate <chakolateDeathToSpammers@gmail.com> wrote:
> FurPaw <furrealpawdog@gmail.com> wrote in
> news:OqidnRrmmoTBORXYnZ2dnUVZ_qHinZ2d@comcast.com:

>> What did you think about the article?
>>

> I thought it was fascinating but I experienced a cold chill when I read
> the bit about further testing being turned over to pharmaceutical
> companies.

> Yeah, I know, it's standard procedure, but I wonder whether anything will
> come of it.

Milk pills :-)

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IPAB, Informatics, JCMB, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK
[http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/cam/]

In article <4uti2iF19d4vsU3@mid.individual.net>,
Chris Malcolm <cam@holyrood.ed.ac.uk> wrote:

> Chakolate <chakolateDeathToSpammers@gmail.com> wrote:
> > FurPaw <furrealpawdog@gmail.com> wrote in
> > news:OqidnRrmmoTBORXYnZ2dnUVZ_qHinZ2d@comcast.com:
>
> >> What did you think about the article?
> >>
>
> > I thought it was fascinating but I experienced a cold chill when I read
> > the bit about further testing being turned over to pharmaceutical
> > companies.
>
> > Yeah, I know, it's standard procedure, but I wonder whether anything will
> > come of it.
>
> Milk pills :-)

That's after they try to get a patent on female breasts and *almost* get
it through.

Priscilla

Chakolate wrote:
> FurPaw <furrealpawdog@gmail.com> wrote in

>> "In September, Seth Stein, a London interior designer returning
>> from his vacation in Turks and Caicos, was put in a chokehold and
>> physically pinned to his seat by another passenger on an American
>> Airlines flight. Stein's crime: He used an iPod, went to the
>> lavatory and his tan made him appear "Arab."

> This one doesn't bother me so much, since it was another passenger
> overreacting (and showing his own bigotry).

Bigotry bothers me, whether it's individual or "officially
sanctioned."

> These bother me much more:
>
> (quote)
> One passenger on a Delta flight from Los Angeles to Salt Lake City was
> arrested for leaving his seat to go to the lavatory less than 30 minutes
> before landing (due to the incident, air marshals ordered all passengers
> to put their hands on their heads for the rest of the flight). And an
> Orthodox Jewish man was kicked off an Air Canada flight for praying,
> which attendants claim was making other passengers nervous.
> (end quote)
>
> Arrested for trying to go to the bathroom? Air marshals ordering all
> passengers to keep their hands on their heads? Kicked off for praying???

And the guy wearing a T-shirt with Arabic writing on it who
wasn't allowed to board JetBlue until he changed his shirt.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5297822.stm

This country is getting downright scary!

FurPaw


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Chris Malcolm <cam@holyrood.ed.ac.uk> wrote in news:4uti2iF19d4vsU3
@mid.individual.net:

> Milk pills :-)
>

But it'd be milk pills with extra chemicals, side effects, and a hyoodge
price tag.

Ah, shucks, I'm feeling cynical again. Sorry.

Chak

--
If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
--Tallulah Bankhead