My Small Breasts and I uncovers the complex, poignant, and sometimes
amusing relationship women have with their tiny breasts. Talking
candidly, three women reveal how they really feel about their own bodies
and the lengths to which they'll go to change their situation.
7 Healthy Things to Know About Breasts
Breasts have so many incredible benefits
for the health of humanity, the power of women, and the nurturing of the
future generations. It is not often that I throw up re-posts but
sometimes I feel the info can be very serving for people and so here
comes a re-post. Please note that this article was originally posted at http://karamariaananda.com/blog/2013/5/27/viva-la-boobies. Kara runs an inspiring and helpful website and I urge you all to check it out.
Breasts are amazing – they are beautiful, they nourish babies, and they have an intelligence of their own.
Breasts have so many incredible benefits
for the health of humanity, the power of women, and the nurturing of the
future generations.
Your breasts deserve a medal of honor – plus nurturing, pampering, and respect.
Yet, our breasts are suffering from the
dangerous effects of rising environmental toxins in our food, water,
air, and toiletries, degrading media, restrictive fashion, and lack of
empowering health education for women.
I had a dream a few weeks ago that I was
at a conference and the organizers asked me to get up on stage and speak
about breast health. They said it was vital that we get more people to
understand and value the importance of caring for our healthy breasts
and that in order to get people’s attention I needed to be topless to
speak. While I was still pondering whether or not I felt comfortable
with being topless on stage, I woke up.
A few days later Angelina Jolie announced
her decision to have her healthy breasts surgically removed because of
her potential cancer risk. This action has inspired me even more to
realize how vital it is that we join in this conversation and speak
about how to naturally care for our breasts, how our environment, diet,
and lifestyle impact our health, and why breast health is more important
than every before.
Thus, my intention is to share positive
inspiring information to support women to love their breasts and learn
about ways to naturally care for our amazing breasts.
Let’s uplift breasts to the status level they deserve!
7 Amazing Things To Know About Breasts
Breasts want freedom.
Bras restrict the movement of lymphatic
fluid through the breasts, underarm, and shoulders, thus causing toxins
to build up in the breast tissue. Underwire bras are the worst culprit,
as the metal also can disrupt the energy flow through the breast area. A
recent French study has shown that women who don’t wear bras actually
have perkier breasts even as they age. Exercising, dance, and rebounding
without a bra also allows the body’s movements to support lymphatic
flow and proper drainage of the breasts. The natural movement of the
breasts as the body exercises and moves is another essential component
to lymphatic health in the breasts.
Breasts need massage.
There is no muscle tissue in a women’s
breasts, so breasts need assistance to enhance circulation through the
breast. A woman’s breasts are mostly fat tissue along with milk ducts,
connective tissue, nerves, and lymph glands. Self breast massage is an
important regular practice for women to support their blood and lymph
circulation and reduce build-up of toxins and hormones in the fatty
tissue of the breasts. Massage your breasts daily with a natural
cold-pressed vegetable oil, such as coconut, almond, or jojoba oil. You
can also add pure essential oils such as rose, jasmine, or clary sage to
your massage oil base. I’m not talking about “man-handling” here, I’m
talking about gentle self massage in which you get to know what your
breasts feel like, notice any changes, and use gentle lymphatic and
circulatory movements to enhance health.
Breasts are hot.
It has been well-documented that a
woman’s breasts will synchronize with her newborn baby to become the
perfect temperature. When a mother and baby are skin-to-skin postpartum,
her breasts will naturally adjust their temperature to regulate the
baby’s body temperature optimally. A mother of twins will have each of
her breasts match the ideal temperature for each one of her twins. A
women’s breasts are more reliable and efficient than any baby warmer. So
breasts are totally hot – just not in the way people usually talk
about.
Breastmilk has a gazillion medicinal uses.
Breastmilk is pretty much the most
amazing food substance available to mankind. Mother’s milk is completely
unique and not possible to replicate (despite what you may have heard
from the formula companies). It actually changes minute by minute, day
to day, to provide exactly the right nourishment and immunities that a
baby needs as determined by the breast through receiving information
from the baby’s saliva on the areola. There are over 400+ identified
nutrients in human breast milk, including probiotics and an abundant
source of stem cells. The first milk that comes out is colostrum, which
is rich with immune factors and is considered to be “liquid gold”, and
extremely important for the life-long health of the baby. Breastmilk is
also used by wise mamas for many purposes including putting on diaper
rash, earaches, pink eye, sore throats, and many other healing needs.
When a women breastfeeds the breastmilk bathes her milk ducts as it
passes through to her baby, thus providing increased breast health and
preventing breast cancer in direct relation to how long she nurses.
Breasts are energy centers.
Traditional Chinese Medicine is a
complete system of health that has been practiced for thousands of
years, based upon the movement of energy through the body on the
meridians (energy lines) and acupoints (nodes of energy on the
meridians). There are six meridians that run through the breast area,
and three of them are the Kidney, Liver, and Stomach meridians where
most breast lumps and cancer develop. TCM treats breast cancer by
addressing the energy stagnation and movement of qi. Acupuncture and TCM
are holistic ways to promote breast health and can be used in
combination with other health care treatments as well. Massaging the
acupressure points along the meridians, or holding these energy points
around the breasts, can help with promoting breast and whole body health
and vitality. Underwire bras can also interfere with the energy moving
through the meridians in the breasts, another reason to let your boobs
go free, or invest in a soft supportive natural fiber bra.
Breasts are a lot like canaries.
You’ve heard about the canary in the coal
mine? Miners would take canaries down in the mines with them, because
the birds were so sensitive that if the environment was toxic the
canaries would die, and then the miners would know to get out of there
immediately! Breasts are extremely sensitive, they receive information
from the environment and their tissues collect toxins and hormones, like
jet fuel and flame retardants. When breastfeeding, the saliva from the
baby is absorbed into the areola and the breasts then immediately
respond by providing the nutrients and immune factors that the baby
needs based upon the breast’s incredibly sensitive receptors. Breast
cancer is now the most common form of cancer for women in the US, and
it’s not because breasts or our genes are the problem. Our breasts are
the canaries letting us know that our environment is toxic and we must
make changes in our health, diets, exposure, and detox. Due to the over
70,000 chemicals now used in the US over the last 100 years, we are
living in a toxic soup and exposed to chemicals in our air, food, water,
homes, cars, clothes, and more. Our breasts are letting us know that we
need to create a healthy change for our longevity and the future
generations.
Breasts are beautiful.
Your breasts are perfect for you. All
kinds of breasts are beautiful. Breasts change in shape and size over
life, and that’s okay. Some men like large breasts, others prefer small
breasts, and some like medium sized. Whatever shape or size of your
boobs is just right. Love your breasts! They have superpowers, they are
intelligent, and they are amazing! In Mongolia, when a baby fusses,
everyone lifts up their shirt and shakes their breasts for the baby, and
the baby calms down and looks around amazed. Everyone laughs and smiles
shaking their boobs, including mom, grandma, and grandpa too! So smile
and love your boobs, they are awesome.
Viva La Boobies!
My Big Breasts And Me
Extraordinary Breastfeeding
Extraordinary
Breastfeeding features three women at different stages of the
breastfeeding cycle and questions why there is such a stigma attached to
the amount of time women breastfeed their children.
In this challenging and revealing
documentary we will witness the extremes, from one mother who stopped
breastfeeding at six months to another who is still breastfeeding her
seven year-old daughter.
“Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality.”
― Iris Marion Young
true Lebanese Feminist
― Iris Marion Young
true Lebanese Feminist
50 reasons not to get a boob job
Earlier
this year the FDA reported that breast implants put women’s lives in
danger. The big news recently is that a small number of women can get a
very rare type of cancer (ALCL: anaplastic large cell lymphoma). It
confirmed that death is a possible side effect of breast implants. But
very few people talk about the other more frequent, more common and very
real dangers and problems that go along with breast implants. Here are
50 of them.1) According to the National Institute of Medicine, 25 to 40 percent of people who get breast implants end up needing another operation to correct something wrong with the first one. (The rate varied in particular studies, depending on things like how long women were monitored, the typical time being five years.)
2) A study by a maker of saline breast implants, Mentor, found that 27 percent of implants put into breast cancer patients had to be taken back out again within three years, due to side effects. Another 13 percent had to have lesser corrective surgeries. The competing manufacturer McGhan/Inamed/Allergan has similar numbers. Even for healthy patients, both were forced to admit that “most women experienced at least one complication over the three year period”.
Read more at http://www.realfarmacy.com/50-reasons-not-to-get-a-boob-job/#IlIu6BXYsVMPWQh2.99
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