Jack Newman said that risk for juvenile (Type I) diabetes by not
breastfeeding was 3-25%. According to Prof. Zvi Laron of Sackler School
of Medicine (Tel Aviv University) in the annual Solomon Berenson Lecture
(report in Jerusalem Post, January 30, 1996): "The rate of new cases of
juvenile -onset diabetes has increased in the Jewish population by 50%
from 1985 to 1993, compared to 1965-1984, but remained stable in the Arab
population...Researchers [think] it has something to do with the decline
in breastfeeding..."
I was never any great shakes in statistics. Does the above work out to
25% or more? My apologies to the epidemiologists out there :-}
Judy Knopf