Female babies growing breast!

♏*PHOENIX*♏ - posted on 08/11/2010 ( 1 mom has responded )

This is a thread going on another debate site, thought Id bring it over here because I too find it interesting.



A substance called bovine (a growth hormone) could be linked to female babies growing breast.

My neice was also getting what we called “breast” as well. she was a formula feed baby, and cows milk baby,,,until she hit almost 2years old. We first noticed it when she was 6months and would take her to the docs and they would say to just watch and make sure that they didn’t get bigger, thankfully they didn’t but from 6months until 2 ½ she had them….we were so worried that it was something very bad like cancer! Because she was only a baby with the beginnings of what pre-teens get when they are getting breast (little bitty nots)….they were complety gone by the time she was 3, but by then she was only on slik Almond milk….

and that is also why most of what we eat is organic...because they dont have to say what they are putting in our food!!



Here is sum form the article I found….





People are very upset about this, and for good reason. Female infants in China who have been fed formula have been growing breasts.



According to the official Chinese Daily newspaper, medical tests performed on the babies found levels of estrogens circulating in their bloodstreams that are as high as those found in most adult women. These babies are between four and 15 months old. And the evidence is overwhelming that the milk formula they have been fed is responsible.



Synutra, the company that makes the baby formula consumed by these babies, says it's not their fault. They insist that "no man-made hormones or any illegal substances were added during the production of the milk powder."



Then what is the source of the hormones? A Chinese dairy association says the hormones could have entered the food chain when farmers reared the cows. "Since a regulation forbidding the use of hormones to cultivate livestock has yet to be drawn up in China," says Wang Dingmian, the former chairman of the dairy association in the southern province of Guangdo, "it would be lying to say nobody uses it." Bovine growth hormones are used in China, as they are in the U.S., to promote greater milk production.



An extraordinary number of food products sold in the U.S. today come from China. Could some of this tainted formula be making its way to the U.S.?



There is currently no way for consumers to know whether infant formula they might purchase has been made with milk products from China.



If this problem appears in the U.S., who will be held responsible? The retailers? The importers? The Chinese producers? Will anyone be called to account?



As I describe in my books The Food Revolution and Diet For a New America, and on my website, this isn't the first time something like this has happened. In the 1980s, doctors in Puerto Rico began encountering cases of precocious puberty. There were four-year-old girls with fully developed breasts. There were three-year old girls with pubic hair and vaginal bleeding. There were one-year-old girls who had not yet begun to walk but whose breasts were growing. And it wasn't just the females. Young boys were also affected. Many had to have surgery to deal with breasts that had become grossly swollen.



Writing a few years later in the Journal of the Puerto Rico Medical Association, Dr. Carmen A. Saenz explained the cause. "It was clearly observed in 97 percent of the cases that the appearance of abnormal breast tissue was...related to local whole milk in the infants."



The problem was traced, and found to stem from the misuse of hormones in dairy cows. When Dr. Saenz was asked how she could be certain the babies and children were contaminated with hormones from milk rather than from some other source, she replied simply: "When we take our young patients off... fresh milk, their symptoms usually regress."



Along with China, the U.S. is today one of the few countries in the world that still allows bovine growth hormones to be injected into dairy cows. Though banned in Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and most of Europe, the use of these hormones in U.S. dairy is not only legal, it's routine in all 50 states.



The U.S. dairy industry assures us that this is not a problem. But there is a very real problem, and its name is Insulin-like Growth Factor-1 (IGF-1). Monsanto's own studies, as well as those of Eli Lilly & Co., have found a 10-fold increase in IGF-1 levels in the milk of cows who have been injected with bovine growth hormone (BGH).



Why is that a problem? A report by the European Commission's authoritative international 16-member scientific committee not only confirmed that excessive levels of IGF-1 are always found in the milk of cows injected with BGH. It also concluded that excess levels of IGF-1 pose serious risks of breast, colon and prostate cancer.



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