Sermons on science from a royal soapbox. The difference between William Blake and Prince Charles is that Blake was denouncing the scientific principle per se and not, as the Prince and Mr Porritt are doing, suggesting bogus science as an alternative to true science - and delivering their pronouncements from the unanswerable heights of Highgrove. Sunday Telegraph . UK media discourage women from breast-feeding. Media portrayals of breast-feeding as problematic, difficult and as the choice of the wealthy and celebrities may discourage many women in the UK from choosing this method of infant feeding, results of a study suggest.
Research spells out Pill risks.
The Pill scare in the mid-1990s saved a handful of women from dangerous blood clots, researchers have found. There was a tremendous amount of distress caused to all women, not just those on the third generation pills, by the way the message was put out. Parents' Food Fears Make for Unhealthy Family Diets . When it comes to food, it's fine to feel the fear as long as it's not passed on to your kids, say researchers speaking at a meeting of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Fima Lifshitz, MD, chief of staff at Miami Children's Hospital, tells WebMD that parents' concerns about high fat and cholesterol should not be used to develop diets for their children.