Julia, you wrote, "It's unfortunate that the importance of breastfeeding in
this study is being glossed over (or completely ignored!) on other sites."

Unfortunate is not the word I think of in regard to this situation.
Negligent might be the word.  Dr. Cicely D. Williams in 1939 had some words
that seem appropriate,

"Anyone who, ignorantly or lightly, causes a baby to be fed on unsuitable
milk, may be guilty of that child's death."

In a study by Karges et al. called, "Common Environmental Factors in the
Pathoetiology of Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus,"  they write the
following:

"In a sizable, more recent study, Perez-Bravo et al. analyzed the early
feeding history of diabetic children and controls matched for HLA alleles
that code low, medium or high diabetes risk15). The relative risk (RR) to
develop diabetes was 13.1 times higher when genetically susceptible infants
received cow milk-based formula, infants with intermediate risk HLA alleles
still had nearly 3fold higher diabetes risks following early cow milk
exposure. In good agreement with the very large Finnish studies16,17),
diabetes risk due to cow milk-based infant formula was largest when this
exposure occurred in the first three months of life. These data put the
cow-milk associated diabetes risk in the same range as the widely
acknowledged link between cigarette smoking and lung cancer (RR ~10)18)."

I do believe that those sites that do not mention breastfeeding at all and
mention reimbursement of free formula are legally liable since we obviously
now know how dangerous it is for babies who are genetically susceptible to
diabetes to receive any cow's milk formula in the first three months.
Valerie W. McClain, IBCLC



             ***********************************************

To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail
To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest)
To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet
All commands go to [log in to unmask]

The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned
LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM)
mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to:
http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html