Wear a tight, supportive bra.
<span>Explanation: The patient trying to dry up her milk supply should do as little stimulation to the breast as possible. She needs to wear a tight, supportive bra and use ice. Running warm water over the breasts in the shower will only stimulate the secretion, and therefore the production, of milk. Massaging the breasts will stimulate them to expel the milk and therefore produce more milk, as will expressing small amounts of milk when the breasts are full.</span>
Those are called dynamic movement exercises because they involve movement of the joints and active movement of certain muscles.
To summarize, food intake is influenced by metabolic activity in hypothalamic neurons and elsewhere; by hormones that signal the body's fat content to the brain; and by other homeostatic-need situations such as low blood glucose. All of these represent instances of negative feedback.
