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...govern the production of dozens of "slave" hormones. An overactive pituitary causes Cushing's syndrome, some forms of gigantism and adult overgrowth, and some cases of virilism in girls and women. Removal or deactivation of even a normally active pituitary helps some patients with advanced cancer of the breast or prostate, and diabetes victims going blind from bleeding of retinal arteries...
...department of pediatrics, can be placed squarely on the nation's physicians. In the current issue of GP, the publication of the American Academy of General Practitioners, Pediatrician Grossman complains that too many doctors are "happy to ignore the subject" and let the mother indulge her prejudices against breast feeding...
...will lose my figure," is the most common argument, and it is simply not true. If a woman is flat-chested before pregnancy, chances are that nursing will make her breasts grow fuller. If she is well endowed, breast feeding does not make her flabby...
Medical evidence of the benefits of mother's milk has been steadily piling up, says Dr. Benjamin Kagan of Los Angeles' Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, and "there's a definite resurgence of interest in breast feeding. .Now more than 50% of pregnant patients ask about it." But even though they ask, most mothers have doubts. Some fear that they are incapable of providing sufficient nourishment for their infants, although 90% of all women are physically capable of breast feeding their babies...
...Grossman in GP. Yet "the greatest enemies of naps are the mother's guilty awareness of unwashed floors and dirty dishes and her friends who want to see the new baby." The secret of successful nursing is simply to nurse the baby often; the process stimulates the breasts to produce more milk. A proper diet, high in fat and protein, with a stein of beer or ale twice a day, will increase the mother's milk supply almost without fail. Such simple facts, essential to successful breast feeding, should be explained to the expectant mother by her physician...