"Dr. Sears told everyone at the LATCH Conference in Cheseapke, Va. that
he is on the Board of Directors of Wyeth ( the company that makes the
generic formulas that places like WalMart sell), and his explanation seemed
very sincere, and from the heart. He is, above all, committed to helping
mothers and babies and sometimes (he claimed 2-5%) mothers are unable to
breastfeed and need to use formula.  Therefore he is trying to get at least
one formula company to add DHA to its product, as he sees this as an
essential ingredient for brain growth and development"

I have a small piece of ocean front property in Arizona and I will be selling
it for a very fair price. Feel free to bid.

We know about 1/1000th of what we need to know about DHA (and countless other
things in breast milk missing from ABM) and why it should be added to
artificial baby milk and how much.

I don't just like Bill and Martha and their ideas, I love them.  I have known
both of them for nearly 25 years and there are no finer people in all the
world.  They have made an egregious error in judgment.  A correctable error
in judgment.

There is no--repeat, NO--adequate explanation for his being on the Board of
Directors of Wyeth nor for his accepting money from them for this
directorship.  More importantly, the Sears' website is advertising formula.
This is inexcusable.

Jay Gordon, MD, FAAP, IBCLC

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