On 10/05/2012 06:21, Renee Hefti wrote:
> It surprised me to find out, (yesterday), that "A Registered Dietitian who holds a position with a company that produces infant formula is not violating the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics' Code of Ethics".  How can they say, as posted on their site,  "The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics recommends exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months to provide optimal nutrition and health protection, and breastfeeding with complementary foods from 6 months until at least 12 months of age" ... and work for the formula industry?
>
Because the reality is that many babies, for whatever reason, are going 
to be fed either completely or partially on formula (and that this would 
be true even if we could magically make every hospital Baby Friendly and 
give every new mother full access to a properly-trained lactation 
consultant overnight) and that it is not going to help those babies if 
the people making the formula don't even have advice from someone 
trained in infant nutrition.  Let's keep working towards the day when 
barriers to breastfeeding are as few as possible and breastfeeding as 
widespread as possible... but let's not be so focused on that that we 
lose sight of the needs of the babies who get formula.


Best wishes,

Dr Sarah Vaughan
MBChB MRCGP

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