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Subject: March97: Breastfeeding moms...
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 18:04:54 -0500
From: "Miriam Lawrence" <[log in to unmask]>
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To: "March97 List" <[log in to unmask]>

Want to help me write a letter?  I just received a letter (copied
below) in
the mail about a study. They want exclusively breastfed male babies
for the
study, and they will introduce formula in their third month twice a
day.
Even Mead Johnson admits that breastmilk is the very best for baby -
yet
they are encouraging formula feeding with a reward of $400.  Want to
help me
write a letter telling them what breastfeeding moms think of this?  I
don't
know why this irks me so much, but read the letter below......
(disclaimer to the formula feeding moms - I'm not saying formula
feeding is
evil :-))
Miriam
---the letter.....

We have been contacted by researchers at the Center for Human
Nutrition,
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, concerning an infant
nutrition study they are conducting. They would like to ask you and
your
child to be a part of their study. They are interested in looking at
the
nutrition of infants to learn more about their nutritional
requirements. An
infant's eating habits affect physical and developmental growth as
well as
overall health.

This study is for male babies who are exclusively breast-fed for the
first
three months. Formula will be introduced during the third month -
three to
four ounces twice a day. The study is looking at zinc absorption in
babies
supplemented with either high or low iron formula.

For your participation you will be provided formula for the three
weeks of
the study, the use of an electric breast pump, and $400.00 for the
successful completion of the study. The study is conducted at home.

We have reviewed the credentials of the researchers and found them to
be in
good order. They have been doing similar research for over two decades
in
the Denver-Metropolitan area. This project is being sponsored by Mead
Johnson and has been reviewed and approved by the Colorado Multiple
Institutional Review Board of the University of Colorado Health
Sciences
Center.

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