> Idea Lab Baby's First Diet Pill...

> By ANNIE MURPHY PAUL
> Published: August 5, 2007
> Why do people get fat? We habitually divide the causes of obesity into 

> As far-fetched as this sounds - another British biochemist has called it science fiction - it is based on emerging knowledge about how appetite and metabolism are regulated. The hormone leptin appears to act =
> very early in life to program the hypothalamus, a gland in the brain that helps keep food intake and energy expenditure in balance. By influencing the set points at which the hypothalamus suppresses hunger and stimulates calorie-burning activity, leptin may increase the body's long-term tendency to use up calories rather than conserve them as fat.
> 
> Cawthorne would supplement infants formula with leptin during the period in which their metabolisms are being calibrated. 


Why would anyone want to give a formula with leptin, when it has been found in mother's own milk -- and linked to lower levels of obesity in breastfed children? Got to Pubmed and search: leptin and human milk. Abstracts and links to some good research reading. 

Seems strange that neither Cawthorne or the article's author thought to to mention that a mother produces her baby's first diet "pill" -- and its price is right. Only ref to lactation in the article was one for rats. Well, I smell one -- the usual rat.

Happy WBW...

Karen

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