{"id":179,"date":"2018-06-18T17:14:21","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T17:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mariannaklebanov.com\/blog\/?p=179"},"modified":"2018-06-18T17:14:21","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T17:14:21","slug":"raising-healthy-adults-step-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mariannaklebanov.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/18\/raising-healthy-adults-step-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Raising healthy adults, Step One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January 14, 2010<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry post-244 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-january-2010 tag-brain-development tag-breastfeeding tag-child-abuse-prevention tag-child-development tag-emotional-abuse tag-health tag-illness tag-infant tag-medical tag-neglect tag-parenting tag-physical-abuse\">\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>The benefits of breastfeeding cannot be overemphasized. Numerous studies show that breastfeeding not only improves immune function, reduces life-long disease, and increases IQ, it also helps prevent abuse and neglect due to the mothering hormones it releases. See\u00a0<a title=\"UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative\" href=\"http:\/\/www.babyfriendly.org.uk\/items\/item_detail.asp?item=620\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative Statement On New Breastfeeding, January 7, 2010<\/a>, and\u00a0<a title=\"UQ Research Finds the Mum Bud Bond May Reduce Neglect\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uq.edu.au\/news\/index.html?article=20258\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UQ Research Finds the Mum Bud Bond May Reduce Neglect, The University of Queensland Australia News, December 9, 2009<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that the mother\u2019s body was created\u00a0with built-in mechanisms to support the\u00a0her healthy and positive\u00a0rearing of infants to create physically and emotionally healthy adults. Yet human beings routinely breach this bond and create circumstances of physical and\/or emotional abuse and neglect.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry post-242 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-january-2010 tag-child-abuse tag-physical-abuse tag-severe-child-abuse tag-violence\">\n<div class=\"post-meta\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 14, 2010 The benefits of breastfeeding cannot be overemphasized. Numerous studies show that breastfeeding not only improves immune function, reduces life-long disease, and increases IQ, it also helps prevent abuse and neglect due to the mothering hormones it releases. See\u00a0UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative Statement On New Breastfeeding, January 7, 2010, and\u00a0UQ Research Finds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mariannaklebanov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mariannaklebanov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mariannaklebanov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mariannaklebanov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mariannaklebanov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mariannaklebanov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"http:\/\/mariannaklebanov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mariannaklebanov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mariannaklebanov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mariannaklebanov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}