The gentlebirth.org website is provided courtesy of
Ronnie Falcao, LM MS,
a homebirth midwife in Mountain View, CA
The gentlebirth.org website is provided courtesy of
Ronnie Falcao, LM MS,
a homebirth midwife in Mountain View, CA
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I just had my mind expanded this morning by Laureen Hudson's hour long online session on how to use the internet to get a message out. Laureen's session “Creating an Online Presence," gave me a wealth of information in a short time and impressed me with how many people are out there who completely rely on the internet for their information. I needed that, and maybe you do, too. - Ina May Gaskin I just hung up the phone from doing the hour long session with
Laureen Hudson on “Creating an Online Presence”. Laureen’s know-how
and expertise were enough to wake up even the birth oldtimers like me and
Ina May to the many unused opportunities of the internet. Laureen’s
engaging and easygoing teaching style made even those scary (to me) terms
like “hypertext, streaming, wordpress, technorati, feedreader and trackback”
start to make sense. Her passion is to reach the generation of young
women who have not yet given birth BEFORE they fall into the black hole
of aggressive obstetrics. I came away from the class today with lots
of ways to improve my website and make it more modern, usable and interesting
for readers. This class will run again this coming Friday (August
22) and I heartily recommend it.
Cost: $35 per session Each session will be 60 minutes in length Creating An Online Presence
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From: C-reuters@clari.net (Reuters) Subject: New evidence for cow's milk link to diabetes Organization: Copyright 1996 by Reuters Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 11:50:04 PDTLONDON (Reuter) - New evidence published Friday added weight to a controversial theory that feeding cows' milk to babies may cause them to develop diabetes in later life, the Lancet medical journal said.
Researchers from Rome and London said they studied 47 patients who had recently developed insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) and found that 51 percent of them had immune cells which grew and replicated when exposed to a protein called beta caseine found in cow's milk.
Only 2.7 percent of healthy people in a control group had immune cells that reacted to the cow's milk protein, the scientists wrote in the Lancet.
``The association between IDDM and early consumption of cow's milk may be explained by the generation of a specific immune response to beta-caseine,'' said the researchers from the University of Rome and St Bartholomew's Hospital in London.
The theory says that cows' milk can stimulate a child's immune system to react to certain milk proteins which resemble proteins found on the surface of insulin-producing beta cells.
This in turn tricks the body's immune system into attacking and destroying the cells.
Earlier studies in mice specially bred to be prone to diabetes has shown that a protein-free diet prevents the onset of the disease, while a diet containing the cows' milk protein produces it.
Professor Leonard Harrison from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia, said in a commentary in the Lancet that the new research proved ``the cow's milk story remains alive and kicking.''
However, he added: ``Much more research is require to define a role
for immunity to cow's milk proteins in this process. In the meantime there
is no justification for exacerbating cowphobia.''
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