The articles are in the current issue of JAMA, 290(13) pp.1771 (editorial), 1st article 1713-1720 & 2nd article 1721-1728. I'm still trying to make heads or tails of the gobbly-gook. The children studied were susceptible to developing type 1 diabetes based on family hx and if they had HLA-DR3/DR4-DQ8 genotype. "Exposure to dietary gluten before the age of 3 months showed a five-fold higher risk for the development of islet autoantibodies than after age 3 months." Somewhere it says that "reduced total or exclusive breastfeeding duration did not significantly increase the risk of developing islet autoantibodies." and another part of article 1 says that the introducing of cereal is increased the risk before 3 mo and after 7 mo, that there may be a window for introduction of gluten containing foods. Article 2 says introducing gluten foods after 6 mo did not have increased risks for islet or celiac disease autoantibodies. So, yes, go ahead and say it...we should give cereal later (just like LLLI has said for Years!) (just don't say I told you so...that's gloating :-) Sincerely, Pat in SNJ *********************************************** 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