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Just a few thoughts.
This one stuck in my mind from something I read back in the late 70s. When
they stopped using the cream from cow's milk for fat, they substituted
vegetable oil. After a while is was found that babies had micro-hemorrhages of the
gut from it. Hello! You can't just add something because it's fat for
instance and think it's fine, it turns out. ;-) This was remedied by adding
vitamin E.
At one cf in the 1990s there was a speaker who was a researcher for the
formula industry. Was it an ILCA cf? She said that they'd been working on
adding AHA and DHA to baby formula for ten years! They were using fish oil as a
source, and evidently there was a preferential uptake of one of the FAs over
the other. Along comes Martek using totally different sources (fungi and
algae) and now these conditionally essential FAs are available in formulas.
I think the industry has begun to learn that you just can't add something
without studying to see what happens. And wasn't it Similac that added
nucleotides hoping it would improve, what, the immune system? And I think the only
effect they could find was that it might have made the stool of the infant
"more like that of the breastfed infant's." So that's what they started
putting on the containers. I looked it up; here is a URL:
_http://www.brandweek.com/bw/news/recent_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001480464_
(http://www.brandweek.com/bw/news/recent_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001480464) And Abbott
Singapore says "not using palm-olein oil makes the stool softer, and nucelotides
are genetic building blocks and are for general growth and development."
We all know that nothing can wholly substitute for the exquisite mother's
milk. I always like that USA analogy. If your starting out in New York City
and want to get to Hawaii, and you add a few new things to formula that's
like getting to Philadelphia. Now they've gotten all the way to Pittsburgh, but
they're still over 4850 miles away.
Mardrey Swenson
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