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http://boycottnestle.blogspot.com/2010/01/formula-use-male-hormone.html
This latest round of articles is citing research from a Norwegian
scientist, Sven Carlsen. Sensationalist journalists, such as one writing
in the Daily Mail
<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1241051/Breast-milk-NOT-better-baby-formula-scientists-claim.html#ixzz0bqVgCVUn> have
declared: "Breast is NOT best... Women should forget what they have been
told about the health benefits of breastfeeding..."
Read on, however, and you find that Prof. Carlsen does not disagree with
the evidence regarding the benefits of breastfeeding.
Even the Daily Mail admits:
"Prof Carlsen's team reviewed data from more than 50 international
studies looking at the relationship between breastfeeding and health.
Most concluded that the more children were breastfed, the healthier they
were. On the surface this was correct, said Prof Carlsen, from the
Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim."
...
The hypothesis that Prof. Carlsen is proposing is that mothers reach for
formula because they have excess male hormone. As the Daily Mail says
later in its article:
---extract begins
The Norwegian scientists' own work pointed to links between levels of
androgen male hormones in the wombs of pregnant women, the health of
children, and breastfeeding.
'Pregnant women who have higher levels of androgens breastfeed less,'
said Prof Carlsen. 'Probably this is a direct effect of hormones that
simply limit nursing ability by reducing milk production in the breast.'
A pregnant woman's health affected hormones in her womb, which had
knock-on effects on her unborn child, said the researchers.
----extract ends
Surely a more relevant headline would be: "Excess male hormone leads
mother to bottle feed and harms babies claims scientist".
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Morgan Gallagher
heather wrote:
>> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1241051/Breast-milk-NOT-better-baby-formula-scientists-claim.html
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>> Will be interesting to see what the actual scientist has said, as
>> opposed to this newspaper, which is famed for both breastfeeding
>> bashing, and sloppy reporting.
>
>
> The professor is quoted here, at the link I posted this morning (and I
> was waiting for the Brit newspapers to get hold of it.....knowing how
> they would report it).
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