[quite a good article - here's one to clip, post and pass around]

Keeping up with mother's milk
No formula has been invented that nourishes a baby as well, but the makers
keep trying.

http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-formula20feb20,0,2539967.story?coll=la-home-health

February 19, 2006
By Alice Lesch Kelly, Special to The Times


Parents selecting baby formula have their work cut out for them.
Supermarkets contain shelves full of choices, with new ones seemingly coming
all the time.

There are formulas designed for babies with fussiness or gas, formulas made
with organic ingredients, and formulas enriched with omega-3 fatty acids,
suggested to enhance vision and brain development. Future formulas may
contain the live bacteria found in yogurt.

<snip>

Despite all these advances and future ones no doubt waiting in the wings,
nutrition experts believe that formula will never be as good as the complex,
poorly understood white fluid that our bodies naturally produce.
"Factories," says Deckelbaum, "just don't do as well as the human mammary
gland."

[see link above for full article]

Janice Reynolds

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