Here's my response to the New York Times Magazine section and unlike the NY Post, I 
actually spent a lot of time to get it to the exact word count.   

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The first diet pill for babies that scientists are trying to develop to reduce obesity already 
exists and it is free.  In fact, the New York Times did an article on its effects on June 13, 
2006.  What is this diet pill?  It is breast milk.  Unfortunately, at least two generations of 
women were admonished to feed their infants according to rigid schedules not suited to 
the size of their stomachs, nor their hunger and satiety cues.  Now what is currently 
written in baby books has more to do with artificially designed routines than normal 
infant behavior.  Are we surprised that eating problems abound now?  The age-old 
survival mechanisms of the human body do not need to be remade, they already exist.  
The real problem is that we have forgotten how to support normal infant feeding.  We’ve 
goofed once by experimenting on our infants with artificial substances.  Why do it again?

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Don't you just love the stuff that comes out during World Breastfeeding Week?

Best regards, Susan E. Burger, MHS, PhD, IBCLC

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