Perhaps we need to get Wikileaks (is that how you spell it?) onto the
confidential correspondence of formula manufacturers?

Ingrid


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Subject: BMJ article on exclusive breastfeeding

I find it very interesting that this article has gotten so much press and is
coming out at the same time as the US Surgeon General's Call to Action on
Breastfeeding. The BMJ article has no new  information and is not even a
study. Just a rehash of articles that are weaker than the ones they are
criticising from WHO. Most of the BMJ articles are observational and do not
clearly point to a need to change current recommendations. Then add on the
new book that was just published titled: "Is Breast Best: Taking on the
Breastfeeding Experts and the New High Stakes of Motherhood" by Joan B. Wolf
just published in 2011 by the New York University Press. The conclusion of
the book mentions the "Call to Action"  whose launch is scheduled for
Thursday, January 20, as follows:

 


 "For the time being, the "Call to Action" to increase breastfeeding that
the Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services' Office on Women's Health were to issue in 2010, a project
they defined as "an urgent public health priority," seems as least slightly
overwrought. In the overshelming majority of cases, either breastfeeding or
formula feeding is a healthy option."  

 


 One wonders about the cluster of bad press for breastfeeding that just
happens to being coming out at the same time!!!



Marsha Walker, RN, IBCLC
Weston, MA








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