Detox Your Diet: What's On your Food?

I've been encouraging my reader and patients to avoid the dirty dozen and to freely consume the clean fifteen (www.foodnew.org). Thanks to the EWG for providing this invaluable resource!

I've just come across another great tool, thanks to the Pesticide Action Network, that helps inform on why choosing organics and being aware of where your food comes from is a must!

Do you know what's on your food?

I just did a quick scan of butter (conventional vs organic). The conventional butter, when analyzed, had the residue of 10 different pesticides. Now if these pesticides are supposed to be toxic (most of them neurotoxins) to insects, exactly what effects are are then having on infants and young developing children?

Mom and Baby: Breast is Always Best! Breast-Feeding Protects Newborns Against Common Infections

(Summary from Journal Watch) Infants exclusively breast-fed for 6 months have fewer and less severe infections their first year of life, according to a study published in the September 2010 issue of Archives of Disease in Childhood.
Researchers interviewed roughly 900 new mothers in Crete throughout the infants' first year to assess breast-feeding habits and the infants' health. Overall, infants exclusively breast-fed had 0.7 fewer infections in their first year than infants with partial or no breast-feeding. Mothers who exclusively breast-fed their infants for at least 6 months reported fewer doctor visits for acute otitis media, acute respiratory infection, and thrush. In addition, hospital admissions for infection were lower in breast-fed babies.
Asked to comment, Dr. F. Bruder Stapleton of Journal Watch Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine said, "These data confirm once again the value of exclusive breast feeding on the health of infants in the first 6 months of life."
Archives of Disease in Childhood