With one breathe we say babies were born to be breastfed but with the next
breathe we are saying that of course there are certain diseases in which
babies are not born to be breastfed.  If the Read et al paper on which this
news release was based was not so flawed, it wouldn't seem so jarring.  But
I find it rather eye-opening that the Department

of Health thinks that the most news worthy item is about hiv/aids when there
is alot of research on human milk components and its wonders.





*** Was just exactly what I was thinking about...

Especially when the estimation of infant mortality is estimated to be "3% of
deaths for AIDS" : Where and why are 10 million children dying every year ?
Lancet 2003, June 28, 2226-34. And 22% to diarrhoea, 21% to pneumonia, 33%
to neonatal causes... Malnutrition beeing involved in about 50% of all these
deaths. And most of theses deaths could be prevented with exclusive
breastfeeding.



Kindly

Françoise Railhet

Manager of the LLL France Medical Associates Program

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