Here's a shocking quote from the full-text (which gave no clues about
funding of study etc.): I added the ****
"Despite the fact that due to the prohibition and restriction of the use of
most organochlorine compounds in industrialised countries, especially PCBs,
HCB, and DDT, there has been a 70% to 90% decline in the prenatal pollution
with these substances from the mid-1980s to the beginning of the 21st
century (Lackmann, 2002a and Lackmann, 2003), the present preliminary
results indicate that this reduction will be ******obviously wrecked by
breast-feeding, in fact as early as at the age of six weeks of life."
What scientist uses that kind of language? OK, maybe it's translated from
German, but Somebody sure had an axe to grind, however, this sentence makes
no sense. If prenatal exposure has declined so greatly, then why is it not
there to go into the fetus but it's there to go into the milk??
OK look at this quote: "Therefore, breast-feeding has been held responsible
for elevated concentrations of these organochlorine compounds as well as
for different harmful effects in children later in life, as growth
retardation, atopic manifestations, and neurological impairment ( Jacobson
and Jacobson, 1996);(Patandin et al., 1999)..."
But let's go to these references and see what they actually said:
"Although larger quantities of polychlorinated biphenyls are transferred by
breast-feeding than in utero, there were deficits only in associated with
transplacental exposure, suggesting that the developing fetal brain is
particularly sensitive to these compounds."
"Both lactational exposure and current exposure to PCBs and dioxins were
not related to 42-month cognitive performance. CONCLUSIONS: In utero
exposure to "background" PCB concentrations is associated with poorer
cognitive functioning in preschool children. Children of mothers at the
upper end of exposure are especially at risk. Therefore maternal PCB body
burden should be reduced, and breast-feeding should not be discouraged."
I could go on & on about other references they cited. Basically, studies
always show higher IQ with breastfeeding so the effects can't all that
devastating.
The last line of the abstract in THE study, which is an ongoing study,
states this: "The progress of the present study will show ... and whether
breast-feeding bears any health risks for our offspring."
Our instincts, and previous studies, suggest it won't bear any health risk
above that of not being breastfed -- certainly not the effects they
suggest, as there are plenty, plenty of studies that show the opposite.
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