>>In THE POLITICS OF BREASTFEEDING (1993) Gabrielle Palmer wrote of an
experiment done in Keneba, The Gambia ... "One of their projects was to
supplement
lactating women's diet to see if this would increase their milk supply.  The
women do extremely hard agricultural work on a much lower energy diet than
western women...  The supplement did not appear to make any significant
difference to their milk output as measured by the baby's intake...

As a point of interest, this or a similar project intended to increase
lactating women's weight failed to do so to the extent expected.  What they
found was that the extra food simply gave women the energy to work harder...

Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC  Ithaca, NY

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