BREAST FEEDING AND HORMONE DISRUPTERS – MILK AND ENVIRONMENT
Unfortunately, not even breast milk is immune from a toxic environment. Low doses of environmental toxins are fat-soluble and are stored in fatty tissue, such as breast tissue. Mother’s milk contains 3 percent fat. The chemicals stored in mother’s fat are not released in significant amounts except during breast-feeding. Breast-feeding lessens the mother’s body burden of toxic chemicals. A six month old breast-fed baby gets more than 10 percent of the cumulative body burden of chemicals up until the age of twenty and receives five times the allowable daily limit of PCBs set by international health standards for a 150 pound adult.7 A woman passes half of her lifetime accumulation of dioxins and PCBs onto her child when she nurses for just six months.
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