Posting this for Nina who is over her quota in US time but not AUS time!

>  ...
> The study is dodgy. (How do these things get published???) It is a
> retrospective cohort study which examines te effect of any breastfeeding
> compared to no breastfeeding in American population data collected for the
> 1979 US national longitudinal survey of youth - Data on 5475 children, the
> offspring of 3161 mothers born since 1986.  Now we know, do we not that
the
> US has the highest rates of artificial feeding in the world.  Would this
> affect the quality of the data?  The study does not control for the single
> most important confounder ... mixed feeding.  It does not tell us whether
> infants who are artificially fed (predominantly or exclusively) display
> cognitive deficits when compared to a true control group exclusively
> breastfed for the first six months.
> So bottom line, when you compare artificially fed infants with exclusively
> artificially fed infants, there is no discernable difference between their
> cognitive outcomes .... Perhaps I'll write a letter.
> Nina Berry BA/Bed(Hons) Dip Arts(Phil)
> Breastfeeding Counsellor
> PhD Candidate - "Ethical Issues in the marketing of 'Toddler Milks'"
>
>
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