Norma -- so we should really be writing to the editor and the author, I
guess!!!  ;-)  Is anyone working on a sheet, maybe using Miriam Labbok's
easy to understand article in LLL Abstracts, which we could all send to all
the journals when we see stuff like this?  Anyone at a loose end this
summer!!!?

Magda


>Magda, I agree - and until we have universal standards for *exclusive
>breastfeeding*
>this kind of research will continued to be flawed.
>
>>21% were exclusively breastfed for four months?  this sounds like the
>>figure
>>the UK govt claim, but the definition of exclusive breastfeeding is
>>exclusive of other *milks*.  Wanna bet this is the same and that those
>>babies got water and who knows what all?  I am not saying they shouldn't
>>be in the study, but I think we should demand good definitions.

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