tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32246421.post8416908861041956435..comments2023-10-10T01:03:46.375+12:00Comments on Food &Health Skeptic: jonjayrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13363092874281160320noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32246421.post-1579721717471576512008-10-13T08:33:00.000+11:302008-10-13T08:33:00.000+11:30"Since the mid-1990s it's been recommended that in..."Since the mid-1990s it's been recommended that infants be placed on their backs to sleep rather than their stomachs. That recommendation, along with others such as sleeping on a firm mattress and avoiding soft bedding, was linked to a more than 50% decline in SIDS deaths from 1992 to 2003."<BR/><BR/>If you actually believe those statistics I got a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you. Even John Kattwinkel, chairperson of the CDC SIDS Task Force, doesn't think those statistics are necessarily correct and thinks it may all just be "code shifting." A lot of the people at the CDC think it's just feel good politics sort of like when cities release a drop in crime by doing creative statistics. I highly recommend you read the Bowman and Hargrove Investigative Report in Scripps News Service on SIDS Statistics. Also, Back Sleep and Pacifiers greatly reduce Slow Wave Sleep (SWS). Where's the proof that decreasing SWS during the first year of life is safe? I'd like to see that.How the SIDS Back to Sleep Campaign Caused the Autism Epidemichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01487876582056463167noreply@blogger.com