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It's The Breast Day Of The Week

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Published April 28, 2021 at 5:00 AM EDT

We're so caught up in in film, literature, , and in the , that we overlook the breast as a vital source of food and and as a body part vulnerable to cancer, including under forty. How often should we get that ? To breastfeed - or not?

Lastly, how come men can go topless in America but women can't?

- Author of Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History and The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative, which will be published in February and her Audible podcast Breasts Unbound, debuts in December
- Breast surgeon, director of the Comprehensive Women鈥檚 Health Center at Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center
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Colin McEnroe and Chion Wolf contributed to this show.

This show originally aired on October 4, 2016.

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