China's Elite Eat Pure Food as Babies Die

[qiphlow]

i love how this thread shifted gears all of a sudden.

[Steve James]

Steve, can I get more info on that men lactating thing? Do you have some online sources? I want to send my gf the info, because I told her about a Reuters story a few years ago about a widowed man who started breastfeeding his baby.

I don't have any recent information actually. There was an important article in Scientific American. I do have my students read this article for my folklore class (where I have to teach about gender roles, etc). http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2005/ ... ationships

I'm on my way to school, right now; but, you can probably get something on google with the query <male lactation stimulation progestrin (sp)?>

Again, the size of the gland is probably the fundamental limitation.

[Interloper]

This just reaffirms that real nipples are the best nipples.

Hey, did you know that men can also lactate --and even breast-feed?

I knew there have been cases of men lactatiting but I never knew about breast feeding, unless they were the consumer of course.

All it takes is estrogen shots, and a bit of oxytocin.
Just as all it takes for a woman to become muscular and sport a fine beard and 'stache is testosterone shots.

It's called "secondary sex characteristics."

[Interloper]

The original article erroneously states that melamine is added to watered-down milk formula in China to "increase the protein content." Melamine is added because it -simulates- protein and tricks government nutrition-standards officials into thinking the formula has a higher protein content than it actually does. The dairies are trying to pull a fast one at the expense of innocent babies.