Below is a quote from a Pedscape article.  I had to laugh at the word, 
"surprisingly." When will it just be common sense that substitutes for the normal 
feeding of human infants (breastfeeding) will cause morbidity?  

Surprisingly, "breast-feeding is protective" against type 2 diabetes, Dr. 
Bennett said. Pima Indian children who are breast-fed for at least 2 months are 
40% less likely to develop the disease, and this protective effect has been 
confirmed by studies among Aboriginal Canadians. There also appears to be a 
dose-response relationship, with more protection conferred to children who were 
breast-fed longer. In an interview with Medscape, Dr. Bennett said that another 
supportive study involving about 1000 subjects will be presented at the 
American Diabetes Association 67th Scientific Sessions in June this year. 
Breast-feeding causes "a marked decrease in diabetes in all populations so far studied," 
he said.

Barbara Latterner, BSN, RN, IBCLC (who Weissingerized the subject line but 
can't remember how to change the statistics as my math is abyssmal).
    
    






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