A colleague of mine who is not on the internet asked that I
post this to the list re: whole food diets

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There are many fads in nutrition like many areas in life.
Everyone knows
it is healthier to have fresh foods instead of processed etc.
On a totally
different tact, how healthy can formula be when it is HIGHLY
processed?  How
healthy can formula be when the cows are eating FRESH
GRASS or FRESH alphalfa
mixed with pesticides and maybe acid rain?* The main point
is we need to STOP
making it seem like a woman has to EAT perfectly to make
perfect milk!!  Her
milk is species specific and superior to any substitute.
Arguments about
whole foods are just side junkets that fail to look at the
bigger picture.
If a speaker does not support breastfeeding - I am suspect.
Period.
                                      Jill Lund, MS, RD
(*or grain mixed with chemicals as happened in my home
state of Michigan when
I was a kid and we all drank contaminated milk.  And then
they had to study
women's breastmilk to see if the chemicals were in the milk.
Again, a scare
about breastmilk but no comparison scare about formula that
was made with
contaminated milk.)