Horizonswift
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Has anyone tried organic milk before? Which brand? Thanks.
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marshmallows
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Do you mean organic fresh or powdered formula milk? For powdered milk I only know of Bellamy, not tried that before. For full cream fresh milk, there's Organic Valley selling in ntuc, found under the chilled fresh milk section. My boy tried that a few times. It has a very creamy taste and he doesn't really like it, just drink for fun occasionally.
There's alot more brands selling at organic stores too.
There's alot more brands selling at organic stores too.
Please state the scientific evidence to support your statement. And please, no propaganda from natural/"green" websites. Scientific facts only.
Just so you know, breast milk contains several times more environmental toxins than formula. Chemicals found in human breast milk include Bisphenol A (BPA), perchlorate, perfluorinated chemicals (PFCs), polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and the heavy metals cadmium, lead and mercury. Researchers have identified 200 different chemical contaminants in the milk of US mothers (Source: E.D. Pellizarri et al., Purgeable Organic Contaminants in Mothers' Milk, Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology). That figure was as of a study published in 1982, and many new chemicals have been added to the environment since then.
The Environmental Protection Agency (in the US) has determined that the reasonably-safe upper threshold of daily exposure to the neuro-developmental toxin and carcinogen, dioxin, is 0.7 pg TEQ/kg-day (toxic equivalency per kilogram of body weight per day). The body-weight-based dose received by a typical breastfeeding infant at initiation of nursing was found to be more than 300 times that estimated safe exposure, at 242 pg TEQ (Source: Infant Exposure to Dioxin-like Compounds in Breast Milk, Lorber and Phillips, Environmental Health Perspectives (a peer-reviewed journal published by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences of NIH). Confirmation of that range of exposure is indicated by a figure quoted in a British Medical Journal publication of 170 pg at two months after birth; other UK data showed a mean of 41 pg at 5-6 months.
In contrast, dioxin concentrations in infant formula come up to only 1.1 pg TEQ/kg body weight per day or less (Source: UK Food Standards Agency Food Survey Information Sheet 49/04 MARCH 2004, Dioxins and Dioxin-Like PCBs in Infant Formulae).
Breast milk, along with urine and blood, are often used to test for chemicals/contaminants in our human bodies.
The toxin burdens in our bodies accumulate over our lifetimes and are mostly stored in fat cells. Breast milk is very high in fat. The toxins are excreted to the nursing infant via the fat in the breast milk. Due to the process of bio-magnification, animals further up the food chain consume exponentially higher concentrations of toxins per kg of body weight. Cows are far lower down the food chain than humans, being purely herbivorous. The nursing infant, on the other hand, is at the very top of the food chain, feeding off another human. In addition to its high toxic load from breast milk, it is very low in body weight, leading to a toxic double whammy. 242 pg TEQ per kg body weight per day - remember that the next time you spout off breastfeeding propaganda.
Also, please refer to the latest position from the WHO on the long-term benefits of breastfeeding - there are none. (Source: World Health Organization, please find the paper at http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/79198/1/9789241505307_eng.pdf). Research finding benefits to breastfeeding are all subject to the same fundamental flaw - the effects of confounding. None of the research is based upon randomized controlled trials (for ethical reasons). Hence, breastfeeding studies only show associative relationships, NOT causative relationships. Breastfeeding has never been proven to CAUSE the positive health or cognitive outcomes purported.
Please also be informed that mothers who breastfeed: (1) Come from higher income families, (2) are of more advanced maternal age, (3) are less likely to smoke and (4) are more highly educated. These are all verifiable facts from the socio-demographic profiling of breastfeeding mothers (Source: The 2002 National Immunization Survey: Breastfeeding Rates in the United States by Characteristics of the Child, Mother, or Family, Pediatrics 2005). Clearly, the offspring of mothers from a more privileged socio-economic background will have a higher probability of better health and cognitive outcomes. The positive outcomes do not result from consumption of breast milk. That is why, in countries where breastfeeding is not socio-demographically patterned (e.g. Brazil), studies do not show any benefit to breastfeeding.
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This is a perfect organic milk if you're looking for pure healthy organic food for you and your families.