Marie Davis received a reply from Woman's Day that contained the following
lines:
>the focus of our article was to list the top ten ways
>for every woman to prevent breast cancer and, although there
>is research indicting that breastfeeding plays a role in
>preventing breast cancer, it is of course limited to women who
>have children.

>We certainly would include breastfeeding in any article we do
>that is specifically aimed at mothers and we appreciate your
>bringing it to our attention.

I'm sure my letter had to be one of the first letter ones that they received
as I sent it by email two days after I received the article and before I
posted it to lactnet.  However I think that based on my past experience of
writing to womens magazines they ignore me cuz my name is Jon (read male)
even though my title is MD.

This thinking is really a lame excuse to exclude BF from the article.  But
understandable cuz they would more likely use this "only women who have
children" line rather than admit that they were ignorant about the subject.
 And what about induced lactation?

What we need to do now is have somebody with access to stastical data find
out what percent of females in the US do not ever have any children.  I would
immagine that it is (this is my guess) 80% or more of women bear at least one
child.  How about it lactnetters can somebody find out this information?
 Then the next person to write to them can site this figure and take this
argument away from them before they use it.  The more I think about it this
reply is really a folly.  Did the article say "The top ten ways for women
without children to prevent Breast Cancer?" No, It would be interesting to
note is any of the critical letters get published.

As I noted on a prior post Working Women recently did list it in their Breast
Cancer article.  I think that we need to work on the American Cancer Society
too, and get them to help promote BF for the preventing of not only breast
cancer but to decrease childhood cancers as well.

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