>
>In this situation I can't help but recall a line from the WHO flyer 
>Infant Feeding in Emergencies:
>
>"A millionaire's baby fed with commercial baby milk has a poorer 
>diet than the poorest family's baby who is breastfed".
>
>Can't help but wonder if they're making an informed decision?
>
>Sally Myer RN LLLL
>Nebraska USA

http://www.unicef.org.uk/press/news_detail.asp?news_id=347

This is an outline of some of the research showing how breastfeeding 
reduces inequalities in health:

'children in the lower socio-economic group who were breastfed had 
health outcomes better than or similar to formula fed children in the 
wealthiest group. This was the case for each of the health outcomes 
measured.'

I hope the Dundee team - they are the ones following the cohort of 
breast and formula fed infants all the way through to adulthood - 
will do more work on this.

It seems a real shame that someone with a priveleged media position 
would not want to use this position to *decrease* inequalities in 
health, rather than increase them.

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc, tutor, UK

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