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Sat, 30 Dec 1995 17:22:47 -0500 |
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I'd like to join Linda Pohl on her thin-air soapbox:
Standard formulas are unnecessary. They exist only because we have
failed to support breastfeeding and milk banking; their existence has
created a need that wasn't there to start with. I'd say that puts them
in the same category as cigarettes: a product for which there is never a
health benefit. I'd put "specialty formulas", for those few infants with
metabolic problems, in the same category as properly used drugs: the benefit
outweighs the harm. If industry had put the same effort and $ into
breastfeeding and milk banking that it has put into substitutes, just think
how healthy our milk banks (and we) would be!
Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC, LLLL Ithaca, NY
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