>Hi,
>a friend who is a breastfeeding counsellor, recently typed in the
>nutrients typically found in breastmilk into a well-known CD-ROM
>encyclopaedia (which has a section which checks your nutrition). She
>told the system that the baby was 2wo and asked it to evaluate the
>baby's nutritional status based on a typical amount of breastmilk per
>day.
>
>The system's reply: the diet was deficient in protein, fats, vitamins
>and minerals and was too high in sugar! :-(

>Would somebody else like to try it and see if our results are a fluke?

The results are flawed because the beginning premise is flawed--that we can
break down the nuturing properties of breastmilk and process them on a
CD-ROM encyclopaedia, which was "in-formed" by people who don't know all
that there is to know.

Do you remember GI-GO:  In computer language it is "garbage in-garbage out."
A system can't "know" more than the people who created it.

Patricia Gima, IBCLC
Milwaukee