One factor in obesity that I think we  have discussed on this list,
Katherine Detweiler, are you there? is  what happens when refined foods are
introduced into a culture and displace traditional foods that have been
eaten for hundreds or thousands of years....?

Obesity and the health problems associated with it such as high blood
pressure, diabetes and heart disease have become the leading cause of death
among adults in Micronesia where, in the past century, the traditional
island diet of  fish, fruits, vegetables and roots like taro and tapioca are
being pushed aside for Ox and Palm (canned meat), Spam, white rice, soda,
packaged ramen and saly and fat laden, processed foods.

Artificial mothers milk does the same thing. Look at the health
contributions of the creation and procurement of breast milk. It serves many
health functions (inhibits estrogen, relaease of oxytocin, causes the uterus
to clamp down postpartum, sucking supports muscle groth in the jaw and face,
etc)

As the adults grow larger, the infants on artificial breast milk in bottles
grow smaller.

As nutrition declines with the introduction of other cultures food for
adults, premature birth, dehtdration, diahrrhea and a host of problems rises
for infants.

Here is an article:

http://www.micsem.org/pubs/counselor/frames/healthmicfr.htm

Inserting ethnicity into a study on obesity can be very revealing of the
impact of processed food on a populations diet and the subsequent harm to
following generations.

Maybe that's why is was avoided in this study?

Warmly,

Lisa Boisvert Mackenzie

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