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>At 09:27 PM 3/16/01 +0100, you wrote:
>>Perhaps it's only a question of interpretation: If we use instead of "stiff"
>>"resistant and strong" and instead of "distensibility" "weakness"  ;-)  ?
>>(just kidding).
>
>Well, as I see it, if, in fact, breastfeeding for longer than 4 months
>causes "stiffer" blood vessels, then we are supposed to have "stiffer"
>blood vessels.  Whenever we are measuring and come out with findings that
>people fed human milk have more, less, higher, lower, stiffer, softer, or
>whatever than those who aren't fed human milk, then those measurements
>would be healthier. Breastfeeding is the norm.


Yes...you'd think so, wouldn't you? But the bf babies in the Lucas
study were not bf in the normal physiologcal way. They were not bf
for long, for a start, and they were not bf exclusively.

That precludes any definite conclusions one way or the other.

The other *big* question mark is the fact that those bf babies may
not go on to build on the healthy start they had by getting (some)
breastmilk. The study rasies the (in my view) legitimate notion that
healthy nutrition doesn't  end at bf.

>
>This stuff is scraping the bottom of the barrel. I know that the "public"
>are vulnerable to misinformation, but it's incredulous to believe that
>anyone would accept results that claim that human milk is less optimal for
>human infants than the milk of another species of animal--or of a plant.
>
>Pat Gima, IBCLC
>Milwaukee, Wisconsin


Pat - please read the study. It is not saying that human milk is not
best. The worrying thing is though that the way it is interpreted by
the media may well leave this impression - and people certainly do
believe it.

HWN, UK

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