On 10 Jul 2006 at 12:07, Linda J. Smith wrote:

> That concept was presented by biochemist Sylvia Rumball at an ILCA
> conference some years ago. When I wrote to her for the citation, she replied
> something to the effect that "every biochemist should know that - it's a
> fundamental principle." Therefore I've never pursued it further. 
> 
> I would really like to hear more about this concept. 

I don't believe the story that cells get broken if you shake them. 
Doctors have blood centrifuged etc. to separate the different 
fractions from each other before performing some tests. So the cells 
must be in some kind of reasonable state after being centrifuged.
I do believe it is unwise to really shake expressed milk because it 
gets air into the milk, which may cause gas in the baby, though.
-- 
Heleen Hayes
www.xs4all.nl/~hhayes

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