At 7:25 AM +1000 31/12/06, vgthorley wrote:
>On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 Joy Anderson wrote, in her thougthful report of
>the Sydney conference on nutrition:
>
>"Interestingly, one speaker began by talking about how infants obtain
>their microbiota (ie microorganism mix in the gut) from their mother
>- from her skin and prebiotics (oligosaccharides) in her breastmilk.
>Then later from food and other influences such as antibiotics,
>stress, gastro disease, etc. He said that breastfeeding sets up the
>microbiota for years. Presumably, the most profound effect would be
>seen in mothers who birth their babies at home and have skin-to-skin
>contact automatically and breastfeed exclusively. The bacteria from
>hospitals and staff, effects of antibiotics given to mothers and
>artificial feeding would all interrupt this process."
>
>Joy, do you know if these speakers at the Sydney conference you
>reported plan to publish?
>
Hi Virginia,
Their abstracts are already in the Proceedings of the conference,
which are published in the Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition
as a supplement: 2006 Vol 15, Supplement 3: S1-S145
I assume that the Finnish presenters have published (which is
presumably why they were brought to Australia for the conference).
Their names, if you want to search for their work, are AS (Seppo)
Salminen (second author Y Benno); Riita Korpela (other authors of her
paper - K Kajander, S Tynkkynen, R Kekkonen, E Myllyluoma, M
Saxelin); MC Collado (and J Meriluoto, S Salminen); Kajsa Kajander
(and H Vapaatalo, R Korpela).
Seppo Salminen was the one who spoke about infants' microbiota being
established by breastfeeding.
Australian-based speakers were DC Donohue (the one who spoke on the
safety issues) and Anders Henriksson (other authors P Su, L Zhang, H
Mitchell).
Industry is involved somewhere with these speakers, I assume, as we
were given promotional items from Vaalia 'My First Yoghurt' that
contains some of the probiotic strains of Lactobacillus they spoke
about. Google Vaalia or Vaalia My First Yoghurt to see more. I am
still getting used to the idea of industry being involved and
marketing to nutritionists - I am not as used to this in lactation
circles! At least my background with lactation and the WHO Code
stands me in good stead to critically analyse the effects of this
sort of marketing, much more so than the average nutritionist who has
been 'brought up' and educated with industry as just part of the
normal scene.
--
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Joy Anderson B.Sc. Dip.Ed. Grad.Dip.Med.Tech. IBCLC
Australian Breastfeeding Association counsellor, Nutrition student
Perth, Western Australia. mailto:[log in to unmask]
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