GALACTAGOGUE STUDY: MILKY OAT TOPS

BENEFITS: PROMOTES A HEALTHY RESPONSE TO STRESS, ALLOWING BIRTHER TO ALLOCATE MORE PHYSICAL RESOURCES TOWARDS PRODUCTIVELY FEEDING THE BABY

“But food insecurity is more complicated than simply the ability to access food. There’s the question of what food costs versus what people can afford. If you live near a grocery store but can’t afford to shop there, then it doesn’t matter that you’re not in a food desert. You’re still hungry. And hunger doesn’t have an age limit; there are food-insecure children, food-insecure college students, and food-insecure elders. Some forty-two million Americans are struggling with hunger. Statistically at least half of that number are women, but given gender bias in wages, teh real percentage is something like 66 percent of American households struggling with hunger are headed by single mothers.”

Mikki Kendal | Hood Feminism: Notes From the Women That a Movement Forgot