On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 Nina Berry wrote:
Kathryn Dewey and Jane Heinig are eminent in their fields.... This research appears to be an attempt (pretty successful, I'd say) to
silence those who contend that formula fed infants are bigger because they
are receiving higher concentrations of some key trace elements (in this case
zinc).  
There is a group of researchers (google Fomon) who are putting forward the
view that formula fed infants are bigger because human milk is actually
deficient in protein.  Scary really ...
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Well put, Nina.  I'd like to add that SJ Fomon authored a paper in Pediatrics supporting feeding with artificial baby milks (ABMs) over breastfeeding, on evolutionary grounds.  I think this article shows Fomon's underlying beliefs.  This article appeared in 2004, two decades later than this line of thought was posited by others (1980, 1981), and then went out of fashion.  I would consider this viewpoint dated.  Articles of this sort tend to be speculative, i.e. basically opinion pieces.  The Jelliffes wrote a refutation of the above evolutionary argument following Waterlow's article in (from memory) 1981.

Virginia Thorley, OAM, DipEd, MA, IBCLC
Lactation Consultant (since 1985).
Cultural Historian working in the History of Medicine.
PhD candidate (thesis submitted).
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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