Fat Content of Milk Increases with Time (FYI)

Sidheag McCormack wrote:
spamtrap writes:

On 15 Sep 2005 13:38:20 -0700, in misc.kids.breastfeeding
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One of the studies they cited was from data collected in England between
1920 and 1930 -- I should think extended breastfeeding at that time and
place might very well correlate directly with poverty and reliance on
cheap, fatty meats. I'd say cut the bacon fat, not the breastmilk!


Have you ever seen English Bacon? The crap that we call Bacon in the US
is actually hard to find there.

Glad to hear you say that, DS *loves* bacon. I don't eat meat myself so no
use asking me exactly what sort DH is buying, but I know that he's very
fussy about it.

Sure, but it's still high in fat. Anyway, if your DH is fussy about it,
that implies that there are better and worse sorts available, with the
worse presumably being rather cheaper and fattier. There are fashions
in pig raising, too -- at least in the US they started raising much
leaner hogs starting about the late 70s or early 80s, which certainly
resulted in leaner chops and roasts, though whether it makes any
difference to the bacon parts, I don't know. And of course I did mean
fatty meat in general, not just the bacon, which was chosen for
alliteration with breastfeeding!

I was thinking of families re-using animal fat for other cooking, too,
rather than buying oil, and hence eating more animal fat all around.
Also, according to C.S. Lewis's diaries from the 20s, margarine was far
cheaper than butter then (the family he lived with in Oxford nearly
always ate margarine) and though not containing cholesterol, was
probably full of trans fats.

--Helen