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In a message dated 12/3/2003 6:53:50 AM Pacific Standard Time,
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Dear Friends:
    Here is the URL for a most interesting article:
http://www.naturalfamilyonline.com/BF/200312-formula-report.htm
    warmly,
I am afraid I cannot endorse this article. I would urge you not to use it. I
believe it will do more harm than good by painting all breastfeeding advocates
as willing to bend the truth to support our claims.  Knowing Linda, even
slightly (she is a neighbor), I choose to believe her work is not a deliberate
mis-statement of evidence, but a lack of understanding of research methodology
and statistics.  She has a good heart but she makes huge assumptions and leaps
from developing nation data to the USA.  She makes even larger jumps from
morbidity to mortality data. She ignores the conclusions of the papers themselves
and all the qualifiers such as SES, and special groups.  She equates
associations with causations.  She even misquotes one of MY papers, which was a review
paper and a theoretical calculation of economic costs based on Schanler's 1999
data, as giving a 2X risk of infections for NICU infants.  That is NOT what I
said.

If you want a good, academic, intellectually honest review of maternal and
infant risks of not breastfeeding see the papers by Dewey and Heinig a few years
back.  I cannot recommend this article.

Nancy
Nancy E. Wight MD, IBCLC, FABM, FAAP
San Diego, CA
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