I wouldn't know where to begin with this....the website itself is
worth a browse.  One of the authors of the article Kate Halberg
highlighted http://www.westonaprice.org/children/breastfeed.html

was involved in actions against the ChoFree formula that damaged
babies back in the 1980s:  "Between 1984-1991, our science editor
Mary Enig served as an expert witness in several suits involving two
brands of chloride-deficient soy formula, Neo-Mul-Soy and CHOFree,
produced by a company called Syntex."

They have a particular knowledge of formula, and advocate home-made
formula - something I find very interesting, as I often wonder if
home-made formula would avoid some of the manufacturing errors of the
mass-produced stuff.


One of the authors describes her own sad experience of breastfeeding
four children, all of whom were supplemented very early, and weaned
early. She compares the health of her own children with those of a
neighbour's who were breastfed for several years. Guess whose are the
healthiest - hers. The sample (2 groups, one of 4, one of 2) are (I
suggest) rather too small to be drawing any scientific conclusions,
and of course she does not give any indication of whether her
positioning and attachment could have been improved. I feel sorry for
anyone whose bf experience has been unhappy, but it is a real shame
that someone who purports to be a scientist uses this experience as a
basis for advice to other people.

The article on breastfeeding is so riddled with selective and
mis-represented used of research that it leaves me gasping.

Is this foundation (Weston A Price)  well-known in the US? I had
never heard of it.

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc Newcastle upon Tyne UK

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