Other Environmental Exposures, Breastfeeding

Other Environmental Exposures, Breastfeeding

CDC's Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity (DNPAO) is committed to increasing breastfeeding rates throughout the United States and to promoting and supporting optimal breastfeeding practices toward the ultimate goal of improving the public's health.

PDF] Biological underpinnings of breastfeeding challenges: the role of genetics, diet, and environment on lactation physiology.

Breastfeeding may reduce arsenic exposure in infants in arsenic-contaminated areas - Vital Record

100% of breast milk samples tested positive for toxic “forever chemicals” - Toxic-Free Future

A priori model developed from published literature indicating potential

Pharmaceutics, Free Full-Text

The Importance of Infants' Exposure to Micro-Organisms - The New York Times

Reduced peanut sensitization with maternal peanut consumption and early peanut introduction while breastfeeding, Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease

Breastfeeding and environmental toxins

Next-generation biomonitoring of the early-life chemical exposome in neonatal and infant development

Study: Long-term Breastfeeding Leads to More Cavities

Frontiers Breastfeeding Contributes to Physiological Immune Programming in the Newborn

Breastfeeding takes work and other things you didn't know

PFAS in Breast Milk - Toxic-Free Future

BABY GOLD - The environmental benefits of breastfeeding need more attention and limelight, given the increasing awareness around the importance of conservation. Check this poster to understand how protecting and supporting breastfeeding

Toxic Flame Retardants in Breast Milk - Toxic-Free Future