Breast-Feeding Rate Is On The Rise

CDC:  Breast-Feeding Rates Rise To 77 Percent Of U.S. Moms by Michelle Castillo.  CBS News.  August 1, 2013.

(1)  Babies who are breastfed have lower risks of _______________________________.

(2)  Mothers who breastfeed have lower risks of _______________ cancers.

(3)  The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that babies are________________ for six months and given _______________________ for 1 year or longer.

(4)  Breast-fed babies have lower rates of _______________________________________________
_______________________________.

(5)  There is some indication that breast-feeding may give the baby a boost in __________.

(6)  It is estimated that __________ billion in yearly medical costs could be saved if breastfeeding recommendations were met.

(7)  The increase in rates, the CDC said, may be in part because more hospitals are __________________________________.

(8)  _________ was the state with the most breast-feeding with ___________ being the state with the least.

Celiac Disease As A System: Gluten, Genes, Environment, Microbes, Breast Feeding

Who Has The Guts For Gluten by Moises Velasquez-Manoff.  The New York Times.  February 23, 2013.

While the article does not mention "systems perspective," this is, in fact what is presented as the evolving perspective on the disease.  The gluten protein plays a part mediated by genetics, gut microbes, environmental conditions, and breast feeding.  A key concept:  "Such complexity both confounds notions of one-way causality and suggests different paths to the same disease," a disease which has quadrupled in the last 50 years in the United States.