Kathleen - LactNet rejected my message from Steven's address via home.
Please forward this to the list.  Thanks!

-----Original Message-----
From:   Steve Dettwyler
Sent:   Tuesday, November 24, 1998 4:36 PM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        FW: What does TIME have against breastfeeding?

For those of you who read TIME, check out their take on the New England
Journal of Medicine article that smoker's milk smells like cigarettes
(Nov. 30th issue, page 132 in my issue).  It is titled "Bad News on
Breast Milk."  Sigh.  Please, everyone read this and write them.   In
its entirety, it syas: "Infants, hold your noses.  Lactating moms who
smoke seem to produce breast milk that tastes like, well, a dirty
ashtray.  One cigarette is enough to bring on the foul flavor - and it
does so within half an hour of lighting up."  Notice the accompanying
photo (mother has no head, the ring is on her middle finger, not ring
finger).  Wonder what that means??  I'm nomail this weekend, but would
appreciate copies of your letters if you send them, at my husband's
email address [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Thanks.

-----Original Message-----
From:   Steve Dettwyler
Sent:   Tuesday, November 24, 1998 4:30 PM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        What does TIME have against breastfeeding?

Once again, TIME has taken a stand squarely against breastfeeding ("Bad
News on Breast Milk," Nov. 30).  The appropriate conclusion from the New
England Journal of Medicine research on the smell of breast milk from
smoking mothers is: "You shouldn't smoke, especially not around
children," and your little blurb should have been titled "More Bad News
on Smoking."  One wonders if the powers-that-be at TIME are (1) people
whose children were bottle-fed and who feel compelled to deny the
overwhelming evidence that formula is harmful to children to assuage
their own guilt or (2) simply on the take from the formula companies, or
(3) both.  Inquiring minds want to know.  Another irony is that your
cover story on Ritalin and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
doesn't bother to mention the research linking formula use (lack of
breastfeeding) to this condition.  Children who don't ingest the
long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids found abundantly in human breast
milk, which are essential for normal brain development - and completely
absent from infant formula - simply don't develop to their full
potential, and for some of them, ADHD and ADD are among the
consequences.

Sincerely,

Katherine A. Dettwyler, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Anthropology and Nutrition
Texas A&M University
(409) 695-1275/845-5256
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