Dear Friends:
    Kathy Dettwyler made reference to a study of nurses that found no
association between breastfeeding and reduced risk of breast cancer. It was
Michaels in 1996 who did that study of 89,887 US nurses who breastfed in the
1940s, 1950s and 1960s. There was no association found ....but think for a
minute. How was breastfeeding practiced in those days? Babies were routinely
given water and formula in the nursery, kept away from their mothers at
night,  and started on orange juice and oleum percomorphum ( a vitamin
preparation similar to cod liver oil) by two weeks of age. And weaned by
when? And was anyone exclusively breastfeeding? Does this sort of study tell
us anything? Warmly, Nikki Lee

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