The Sunday Times - Scotland

Milk firms 'are buying up medics'

 April 30, 2006

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2090-2158547,00.html

ONE of Scotland's leading paediatricians has accused the medical profession of being in the pocket of the formula milk industry. 

Charlotte Wright, professor of community child health at Glasgow University and a paediatric consultant at the city's Yorkhill hospital, said formula milk companies are "buying off" paediatricians to circumvent rules banning them from advertising their products direct to the public. 

Wright, who sits on the nutrition committee of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH), claims companies are encouraging doctors to promote formula milk to their patients and allowing their names to be linked to the alternative to breast milk. 

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Janice Reynolds

(somewhat unrelated to the main topic of the article, this paragraph jumped out at me:
"Because babies given formula milk put on weight more quickly, many mothers who breast fed their children were encouraged to fatten them up by giving them formula milk or extra solids. Health experts believe the growth charts may have contributed to childhood obesity and associated problems such as diabetes and heart disease in later life."

Aaah, its interesting that is the *charts* that contributed to childhood obesity.  Can't anyone come right out and say that it is the formula and bottlefeeding that contributed to childhood obesity???)

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