Dear Lactnet Friends:

There is a lovely meta-analysis of evidence showing that human milk is best
for term infants....available for free from the AGency for Healthcare
Research and Quality. <http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/tp/brfouttp.htm> When the
US government creates such a document, res ipsa loquitor!

I wonder if the public would use formula if they knew what it contained. I
believe that the formula industry stated, in their global marketing report
of 2010, that parents use formula because they believe it is safe. I
believe the same report also stated that parents don't know that formula
contains harmful ingredients. Ingredients such as MSG, genetically
engineered corn and soy, phytoestrogens, aluminum (40 x higher levels than
in human milk), and silicon don't have to be listed on the label. Industry
was evasive when queried about the impact of using an industrial solvent,
hexane, a known carcinogen, to extract ARA and DHA from genetically
modified soil fungus and then to add those ingredients to formula.

The public is kept in ignorance. Keeping the public ignorant to maximize
profits seems to be the reason  that Industry and the AAP derailed the
Breastfeeding Promotion Campaign of 2003.          <
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/30/AR2007083002198.html
>

I can't imagine that any evidence would show a beneficial or even equivocal
impact of these ingredients to any baby,  when compared to human milk.
However, I am open to evidence showing otherwise

These thoughts remind me of Erin Brockovich. Didn't the Hinkley corporation
in California send out information to its customers  to persuade them that
hexavalent chromium was good to ingest? Hexavalent chromium is  the
pollutant that contaminated the ground water in that region as a result of
industry activities, and sickened and killed many, many people.

Don't our babies deserve the very best, all of the time?  In today's times,
that means breastfeeding, hand expressing and pumping and feeding expressed
milk, safe informal milk sharing, and donor milk banking. Thank goodness
for all these possibilities.

warmly,

-- 
Nikki Lee RN, BSN, Mother of 2, MS, IBCLC, CCE, CIMI, ANLC, CKC
craniosacral therapy practitioner
www.breastfeedingalwaysbest.com

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