In einer eMail vom 22-6-01 21:41:54 West-Europa (zomertijd) schreibt
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> And, as Gonneke has already said, there are no benefits to
> > breastfeeding. Breastfeeding is not "superior in every way".
> > Everything else is a disbenefit and inferior.
> You have made the same mistake as Gonneke - if there is a disbenefit [is
> this a word in a dictionary or just a neologism?] then
> there is also a benefit.
>
> I stand by my argument - if everything else is of a lower standard then BF
> is both superior and has benefits.
>

Tony, I still disagree, perhaps it is a language-issue.
When one says that a product has advantages or benefits, it means that it is
measured  to a norm and found to be above norm. So if breastfeeding has
benefits, an alternative is taken as norm. But formula is not the norm,
medicly and biologically spoken, breastfeeding is. The medical/biological
norm is not what everyone does or practices or beliefs, norm is what is meant
to be. Stating that breastfeeding has benefits above formula is like stating
that intrauterine pregnancies have benefits above extrauterine (or
incubator). Everyone will agree that that is ridiculous.

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Gonneke van Veldhuizen, IBCLC
MOM, LLLL, primary schoolteacher
Hiilensberg, Germany

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