Atapuerca is the most important paleontological site in Europe and is in Burgos. Its researchers have won the Prince of Asturias Award in 1997 for Scientific and Technical Research.
Y what does a paleontologist talk about breastfeeding? Well, simply defending that you can breastfeed in public, and showing the benefits it reports and how our species has survived thanks to it.
I can only clap your speech at all points and so that there is no bias I presentthe textual words of paleontologist José María Bermudez de Castro:
"It is surprising that a couple of weeks ago many fathers and mothers had to go outside to claim such a natural fact like breastfeeding Mammals have taken many millions of years to perfect a physiological process which allows to feed and protect the young for a certain time after delivery.
The strategy of breastfeeding provides the necessary food, sufficient and adequate, which changes in its composition and properties during the development of the young, from birth to the age of weaning. It's not about discovering here the extraordinary properties of breast milk, nor to write about its benefits for proper nutrition, immediate and prolonged health over time, psychic and emotional stability, the highest level of intelligence and, in general, the quality of life for both babies and their mothers.
Our human stupidity and certain economic interests, which I do not consider necessary to discover, have led our modern societies to consider breastfeeding as a socially frowned-out actAt least in public. That it does not occur to a mother to breastfeed in a restaurant to feed her child, there would be more! Can you imagine the Pleistocene mothers taking refuge in the deepest part of the cave to avoid being observed during breastfeeding?
Is it not that our brain has increased in size, but that our mental evolution has entered into regression? Well, I can't imagine a more beautiful act than a mother feeding her son. And we want to miss it!
It is true that the woman loses ground in front of the professional man because of the ties that come with the last months of pregnancy and the first months of caring for the baby. Prolonged breastfeeding for months would still aggravate a woman's professional setting, forced by her child's needs. But it is no less true than in the century of communications the possibilities of reconciliation between family life and work and professional life have greatly increased.
And why can't the state and companies pay for the period of breastfeeding with a salary for mothers and the corresponding quotation ?. Can you imagine, political gentlemen, how much we would save in the long term in hours of work lost due to sick leave, in medications and hospitalizations, if our children had the best diets during their first two or three years of life?
A society with a good standard of living, which combines prolonged breastfeeding with a balanced diet, such as the Mediterranean, would be a healthy and better society, with extraordinary expectations and quality of life. Let each one choose his option. "
