Small changes, big benefits?
I’ve been a little delayed in posting and this will be a short one. I’m back home visiting my parents.
I’m a news junkie so I will leave you with something I read on Yahoo today. This caught my eye because the last time I went grocery shopping back home I walked through the mall and noticed that there is an ongoing campaign to promote breastfeeding. I think this is a great thing! Not only does it help with building an infant’s immune system but there is statistical data suggesting it may play a part in preventing diabetes and obesity later in life and may help with allergies. Its also good for the mother, helps with bonding, has health benefits and on a side note its a semi-effective birth control method and may help with weight loss 
But wow… breastfeeding could save 1.3 million lives! What a staggering number for what seems like such a simple action.
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I agree 100%. The sad thing is there are lots of people who think their own sensibilities are more important than the health and lives of millions of other people. Case in point: I think Facebook has a ban on showing breasfeeding; there was a scandal about that a while ago. Though they may have changed their rules now they had an (arbitrary) rule for how much breast you’re allowed to show. Because too much breast would be obscene you know…even if we’re talking about something that is not even remotely sexual but rather something that should be celebrated as the most precious gift a mother can give her child.