I'm interested in knowing if there has ever been a study done looking at the long term correlation between breastfeeding and obesity. I've been cruising the archives for a while, but haven't found any reference to anything other than the study looking at Brazilian teens, and the well- known studies looking at obesity correlation in children. It seems like it would be pretty easy to do a study looking at adults in the US and compare BMI to just a yes/no if they were ever breastfed. I know it would be a very course study - the issues of whether BMI actually represents obesity level (my vote is no) and no consideration of BF duration, but I still think it would be an interesting place to start. And I know that statistics often get people's attention when facts and opinions don't. In walking around my predominantly poor, white neighborhood, I see so much obesity, and in seeing the world through lactation-glasses, I find myself saying "I'll be she wasn't breastfed...". I think it would be amazing to see parallel lines on a graph showing the rates of obesity going up in exact tandem with the rates of breastfeeding going down (which is a slightly different issue - maybe this could be charted w/ existing data from CDC?). Anyone know if something like this has been done? Thanks so much, Kirsten Berggren, PhD and aspiring ICBLC *********************************************** 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(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html