http://boycottnestle.blogspot.com/2010/01/formula-use-male-hormone.html

This latest round of articles is citing research from a Norwegian 
scientist, Sven Carlsen. Sensationalist journalists, such as one writing 
in the Daily Mail 
<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1241051/Breast-milk-NOT-better-baby-formula-scientists-claim.html#ixzz0bqVgCVUn> have 
declared: "Breast is NOT best... Women should forget what they have been 
told about the health benefits of breastfeeding..."

Read on, however, and you find that Prof. Carlsen does not disagree with 
the evidence regarding the benefits of breastfeeding.

Even the Daily Mail admits:

"Prof Carlsen's team reviewed data from more than 50 international 
studies looking at the relationship between breastfeeding and health. 
Most concluded that the more children were breastfed, the healthier they 
were. On the surface this was correct, said Prof Carlsen, from the 
Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim."

...

The hypothesis that Prof. Carlsen is proposing is that mothers reach for 
formula because they have excess male hormone. As the Daily Mail says 
later in its article:

---extract begins
The Norwegian scientists' own work pointed to links between levels of 
androgen male hormones in the wombs of pregnant women, the health of 
children, and breastfeeding.

'Pregnant women who have higher levels of androgens breastfeed less,' 
said Prof Carlsen. 'Probably this is a direct effect of hormones that 
simply limit nursing ability by reducing milk production in the breast.'

A pregnant woman's health affected hormones in her womb, which had 
knock-on effects on her unborn child, said the researchers.
----extract ends

Surely a more relevant headline would be: "Excess male hormone leads 
mother to bottle feed and harms babies claims scientist".

----

Morgan Gallagher

heather wrote:
>> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1241051/Breast-milk-NOT-better-baby-formula-scientists-claim.html 
>>
>>
>>
>> Will be interesting to see what the actual scientist has said, as 
>> opposed to this newspaper, which is famed for both breastfeeding 
>> bashing, and sloppy reporting.
>
>
> The professor is quoted here, at the link I posted this morning (and I 
> was waiting for the Brit newspapers to get hold of it.....knowing how 
> they would report it).

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