Judy Ritchie quoted an article from the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition which in part stated: > "Human breast milk is made up of fifty percent fat" Well -- THAT is interesting news! 50% fat would mean that in a feed of once ounce of breastmilk, the baby would get 135 calories figuring it at 9 cal/gram. I think they might have meant to say that 50% of the calories a baby gets from breastmilk is from fat. That's quite a bit different. Makes you wonder how accurate the rest of the article is...." Jan Barger, RN, MA, IBCLC, RLC Lactation Education Consultants www.lactationeducationconsultants.com *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html