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Crohn’s is a PreventableDisease

Sunday, May 17th, 2020

Recent research makes it evident that Crohn’s Disease is a preventable disease. The great news is this: prevention doesn’t require costly drugs, just breastfeeding.

“In third world countries where breast feeding is an economic necessity, Crohn’s disease is literally undocumented until the imposition of a western diet. Taken in totality, the data in evidence makes the case that Crohn’s disease is a preventable disease entity.”1

“The longer an infant was breastfed — especially 12 months or more — the greater the decrease that was seen in disease risk, a decline observed by comparing [the] disease in people reporting long-duration feeding to those breastfed for three or six months.”2

“Thus, early life environmental influences may offer the greatest potential to alter susceptibility to CD risk ….”3

“[T]he events that combine to produce Crohn’s disease and the “medical truth” that breastfeeding confers relative protection against the future development of Crohn’s disease have created an ethical imperative: pregnant women [should] be given the information that allows her to make a fully informed decision as to how her newborn will receive milk-based nutrition within the first four weeks of life.”4

“An ethical imperative.”  Very strong words for a medical journal.

It grabs me.  I hope it grabs you too.  Note the value of breastfeeding for 12 months or more.  NFP International is the only NFP organization in the States that promotes and teaches Ecological Breastfeeding, the only breastfeeding pattern that regularly provides breast milk for 12 months and more.  Thus your help to NFPI will make a difference that will be huge in the lives of some children and their parents.  I encourage you to make a donation to NFP International.  Sorry to beg but we need it.  Please help.

John F. Kippley

  1. “The Prevention of Crohn’s Disease by Breastfeeding”, Gilles RM. Adv Res Gastroentero Hepatol Dec 15 2017.
  2. “Systematic review with meta-analysis: breastfeeding and the risk of Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis,” Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeuutics, curated by Jenny Blair MD, Sept13 2017.
  3. Lindoso L, Am J Gastroenterol 2018 Oct 4
  4. Gilles, ibid.

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Natural Family Planning and the Importance of Breastfeeding for the Environment

Sunday, April 5th, 2020

“Support for breastfeeding is an environmental imperative” (BMJ 2019; 367:l5646).  That research was reported in the October 2 issue of the British Medical Journal.

The BMJ report opened our eyes to the reality that the work of our organization is having beneficial effects on the air we breathe (as well as the water we drink which we have known for some years).  We educate ordinary people on how they can improve the environment of their families, especially the mother-baby micro-environment.  That is, we help individuals to help themselves and their families by making good choices.

What makes our organization—NFP International–truly unique is that it addresses three important family-life issues—baby care, the meaning of human sexuality, and two healthy ways to space babies.

  1. Ecological Breastfeeding is the healthiest form of the mother-baby environment. It’s also a healthy way to space babies.
  2. The Covenant meaning of the marriage act provides a common-sense meaning to human sexuality. This can benefit the social environment.
  3. The fertility-awareness system of Dr. Konald A. Prem (Ob-Gyn) gives couples real freedom to choose among various signs of female fertility and infertility. This benefits the waterways environment as well as the marriage environment.

And here’s the kicker: breastfeeding can provide environmental protection.  That sounds almost unbelievable, but the BMJ report stated that if all new mothers in the UK did Exclusive Breastfeeding (only mother’s milk) for six months, that would have the same CO2 reduction as removing between 50,000 and 77,500 cars off the road each year!  That’s from a leading medical journal.  Your number-crunchers can extrapolate that to the USA and the rest of the world.
John and Sheila Kippley
www.NFPandmore.org

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Natural Family Planning: Benefits of Ecological Breastfeeding

Sunday, March 29th, 2020

Why should every young woman, prospective bride, and expectant mother be well informed about the Seven Standards of Ecological Breastfeeding?  Here’s the case.

For couples desiring a family, the Seven Standards of Ecological Breastfeeding should be taught as an option. The Seven Standards are maternal behaviors that encourage mother-baby togetherness and frequent and unrestricted suckling.  It is God’s plan for spacing babies with many benefits for both mother and baby—even years after the breastfeeding has ceased. And no abstinence is required. Mothers doing ecological breastfeeding average 14 to 15 months without menstruation. To go 1, 2 and sometimes even 3 years without menstruation due to eco-breastfeeding is normal while having an early postpartum period would be an exception.

Breastfeeding is not just about nutritious breast-milk. It is also God’s plan for information and protection. A baby is born with a weak immune system, so the mother is the primary immune system for her baby. If and when a baby gets a “bug,” it is transmitted to the mother via suckling. That’s the “information” part of the system. The mother reacts, produces antibodies, and transmits them as she nourishes her baby at her breasts. If the mother gets a bug, she also transmits her subsequent antibodies to her breastfeeding baby. That’s the “protection” part of the system.  From the perspective of science, it’s a great system. From the perspective of faith, it’s a divinely designed mother/baby ecology.

The health advantages of breastfeeding are tremendous. Mothers who breastfeed their babies will likely reduce their risk of having breast cancer, ovarian cancer, anemia, rheumatoid arthritis, endometrial cancer, thyroid cancer, lupus, and osteoporosis.   Babies benefit from breastfeeding in reducing their risk of allergies, asthma, autoimmune thyroid disease, botulism, Crohn’s disease, diarrhea, ear infections, eczema, gastroenteritis, inflammatory bowel disease, leukemia, lymphoma, multiple sclerosis, obesity, respiratory tract infections, sudden infant death syndrome, type 1 and type 2 diabetes, ulcerative colitis, and urinary tract infections.  Obviously many of these benefits for mother and baby show up years later after the breastfeeding has ceased.

Emphasis in recent months has been on the benefits of breastfeeding to the environment because of the environmental hazards of manufacturing baby formulas.   In the October 2, 2019 issue of the British Medical Journal, according to UK researchers, if mothers in the UK switched to exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of life, that would reduce carbon emissions equivalent to reducing road traffic by 50,000 to 77,500 cars each year.  A 2016 study “showed emissions from just six Asia Pacific countries were equivalent to 6 billion miles of car travel.” (International Breastfeeding Journal, Nov. 27, 2019)

A 2020 study showed that breastfeeding mothers vaccinate their babies against malaria because antigens against this disease are found in their milk.  As the researchers said, “the presence of malaria antigen (proteins) in breast milk stimulates anti-malarial immune defense and reduces malaria risk in breastfed infants. This would be a way to naturally vaccinate infants.” JAMA Pediatrics, January 7, 2020)

In October, a UNICEF report lamented that one-third of children under age five are malnourished…while two thirds are at risk of malnutrition and hidden hunger because of the poor quality of their diets.  Further, only 2 in 5 infants under six months of age are exclusively breastfed as recommended.  One conclusion:  Breastfeeding could save the lives of 820,000 children every year worldwide.

When a mother follows the Seven Standards of Ecological Breastfeeding, she is likely to have an extended breastfeeding experience.  When a mother breastfeeds exclusively for six months and continues to nurse for two years as recommended by many medical organizations, health outcomes are improved.

All of the above is why I am convinced that every young woman, prospective bride and expectant mother should be taught all these benefits of Ecological Breastfeeding.

Sheila Kippley
The Seven Standards of Ecological Breastfeeding: The Frequency Factor
Also available at Nature’s Warehouse…usually at a discount; last seen a 34% discount.

 

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