Can Breastmilk Cause Autism?
Augh! Writing that title almost made me gag.
But a new article on the University of California, San Francisco site claims that neuroscientist Michael Merzenich has performed research that may make some leaning toward formula fulling tip over the edge.
Merzenich tested newborn rats by dosing them with the proportionally even amount that newborn humans get from human breastmilk of the chemicals PCBs and PBDEs. The outcome, he said, was
brains that were more degraded in their organization developmentally in these rats than we have ever seen before
So it’s as simple as that, eh? Breastmilk causes autism. Not so fast, there, Nestle.
