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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The job of the AAP is to tell you what is the optimal practice. Not what you should do. You should exercise every day. You should eat at least 5 fruits and vegetables a day. You won't die if you don't but that is the optimal clinical outcome. Stop being so defensive and sensitive. [/quote]

This all day. [/quote]

Exercising every day is objectively good for the person that does it. Eating at least 5 fruits and veggies a day is objectively good for the person that does it. Being the only caregiver that can do night feedings for a newborn is not good for a lot of women, and the benefits to the baby are marginal at best.[/quote]

Reductions in breast and ovarian cancer are not objectively good for the person? There’s a lot of dead women who are surprised by that take.[/quote]

Really? That's their rationale? Give me a break. Their emphasis has always been and continues to be on bogus benefits to the baby.just read the most recent policy statement. If it were about breast cancer risk to themselves many women would choose higher risk over the many hours of labor it takes to breastfeed, which the AAP continues to diminish.[/quote]

The diminished cancer risks are right there in the document. And many women choose higher risk of heart disease over following the medical recommendations for diet, that doesn’t make them bad recommendations.[/quote]

Recommendations that don't require flat out lies to justify are good recommendations, I agree[/quote]

So you think it is a lie that breastfeeding reduces cancer risks in women? Because even Emily Oster agrees those are sizable…[/quote]

Again, of that's the reason the AAP thinks women should breastfeed they should focus on that, not on BS benefits to the baby as they do in this policy statement. [/quote]

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