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On 12 May 1995 Bishop James T. McHugh of Camden, NJ
introduced the participants in the Working Group on
<Breast-feeding: Science and Society>, whose meeting was
co-sponsored by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the
Royal Society of London. Introduction included reference to
<considerable evidence> re bf's supplying proper nutrition,
protecting child and mother, also re inhibition of return of
ovulation in fully bf woman during first 6 months after
birth <thereby providing important health benefits to the
family because of improved birth spacing>. Then followed 4
double-spaced pages of statement by Pope citing <the
overwhelming body of research ... in favour of natural
feeding rather than its substitutes. Responsible intl
agencies are calling on govts to ensure that women are
enabled to breast-feed their children for 4 to 6 months from
birth and to continue this practice, supplemented by other
appropriate foods, up to the second year of life or beyond.
Your meeting therefore intends to illustrate the scientific
bases for encouraging social policies and employment
conditions which allow mothers to do this.> I am pleased to
share these pages on request.
Jim Akre, WHO/NUT, Geneva
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