Just reliable
studies on cloth diapers and the implications for your baby.
Not exact matches
An article
on the environmental impact of the production and disposal of millions of plastic and
cloth diapers reveals the length to which corporations will go to ensure profit margins: couching advertisements in «scientific
studies»; funding
studies based
on controversial methodologies; using unscientific statistical
studies to cook the books
on cost - benefit analyses of environmental damage; and employing shrewd, manipulative and effective public - relations strategies.
Although there are no recent estimates
on the number of U.S. parents who choose disposable or
cloth diapers,
studies from the 1990s found that about 95 percent of American parents choose disposable
diapers over reusable ones.
A
study co-ordinated by the UK Environment Agency shows that disposable
diapers have no greater impact
on the environment than
cloth diapers (visit: http://www.nappyinformationservice.co.uk/environment.htm).
With the possible exception of the fact that
cloth diapered babies potty train earlier and the link between potty training after 32 months and urge incontinence, NO long term
studies have concluded that
cloth diapering is going to have any detectable benefit
on the development of your child (before you go off
on the scrotal temp thing make a note that I'll get to it).
And while there isn't any evidence it's actually bad for your baby — outside of some inconclusive - but - still - worrying
studies that
diapers may be linked to asthma — some parents may err
on the side of caution, especially with the other benefits
cloth diapers provide.