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>  One wonders about the cluster of bad press for breastfeeding that 
>just happens to being coming out at the same time!!!
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>Marsha Walker, RN, IBCLC
>Weston, MA

In my experience,  no excuse is *ever* needed to give a whole ton of 
bad press for breastfeeding.

I think it's probably a happy co-incidence for certain people and 
certain interests that other stuff is happening around public health 
at the same time in some countries.

The media love to challenge what they see as 'orthodoxy' which is why 
these researchers' institution (University College, London)'s press 
office went BIG on it, and why in turn Reuters, Press Association and 
the world's TV, radio and newspapers have gone absolutely overboard 
on it.

Check Google news. This story is big everywhere - we had headlines in 
the UK press saying 'Breast is Not  Best' with the word 'Not' in big 
red letters. We had a quality newspaper headlining it as 'Too much 
breastfeeding may put babies off their greens' and a whole queue of 
'experts' pontificating on the 'risks' of breastfeeding to six months 
.

:( :( :(

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc, tutor, UK


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