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In a message dated 11/25/98 12:09:52 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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> There has been a "lively" thread on the Peds list about breastfeeding.
> One point of contention is the Kaiser study that states breastfed babies
> "cost" $1400 less in health care costs in the first year (or is it 6
months)
> of life. A pediatriciain on the list said that this studay was flawed -
> does
> anyone know anything about this - and, if it is flawed, what are the real
> numbers??
> Thanks..........Dianne Kemp, Port Huron, Michigan
This just floors me. I mean, what is there for physicians to disagree on about
breastfeeding? Who really cares what the Kaiser study showed; you can point
them to the footnotes of the new AAP Policy Statement on Breastfeeding for
dozens of peer-reviewed studies demonstrating the risks of artificial feeding.
I would be very interested to hear what the gist of this lively discussion has
been.
Katie Allison Granju
Knoxville, TN
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