Today, we are the sixth generation. With modernization, our lives became fast pace and sedentary. We sit at a desk, in front a screen at work, and we do the same when we are at home, walking down the streets, and meeting people. We eat processed soft foods throughout our lives, and babies get fed through an artificial bottle with allergy causing dairy formula.
Moms are working and/or stressed (also poor sleep quality) and not as available to breastfeed or unable to produce what the baby needs, the most natural and healthy diet an infant can have and is meant to have. Shorter term breastfeeding or no breastfeeding is now the norm.
Breastfeeding is replaced by formula which is the least natural and processed form of food for a human infant. The bottle, too easy to get milk out of, replaces exclusive breastfeeding and robs the infant of proper motor (tongue, lip, nasal breathing head neck muscles) development. Lack of muscle tone then diminishes the skeletal development of the jaw and airway. This trickles down to the rest of the body. It also irritates the digestive system in the baby’s early years.
Sometimes, moms would breastfeed to the best of their ability, having heard that this is the best for their child then get told that babies cannot chew (a myth!). So moms get the best ingredients possible, and blend everything into mush. Babies are now conditioned to slurp and drink their food (abnormal habits) rather than developing a healthy normal chewing habit. Now beyond the breastfeeding stage, the toddler once again becomes robbed of the opportunity to gain normal muscle tone development (function) which than diminishes the skeletal development further (form).
Dr. Robert Corruccini’s research shows clearly how the adoption of this type of soft processed foods, resulted in an immediate increase in malocclusion – crowded, crooked teeth – by 50% in the first generation. After another generation, 70% and after the third generation, this jumped to 85%. These immediate degenerative changes showing so quickly after adopting unnatural lifestyle habits proves much of malocclusion is acquired, not inherited. Since the era of straight teeth and no cavities 400 years ago, today, we are in the sixth generation.
Read further on the etiology of tooth decay via the research of Dr. Weston Price. He travelled the world to find out about the lifestyle of groups of people who had almost no tooth decay or crooked teeth, alive in his lifetime and in the recent past in the early 1900s.
Babies innate development stages of salivary and pancreatic enzymes also serves as proof that breastmilk diet of choice. If the breastmilk is most appropriate, then direct breastfeeding is also most appropriate for the child/human development. - read more