Hi,
        Not to stir up a fire, but really wondering about the implications of this
research (not to mention personal experience with this issue):

>Here's an interesting article, linking milk protein with autism:
><A HREF="aol://4344:1655.OPharmA.12415230.606242062">Milk protein may play
>role in mental disorders
></A>
>
>Yet another reason to recommend breastfeeding!  :-)
>
Or maybe not.

There is casein in both colostrum and mature milk: colostrum has 140 mg
casein per 100 ml and mature milk has 187 mg/ml.  This is from Riordan &
Auerbach (1993).  It also says "Caseins account for 30% of the total
protein in human milk, about one-half that in bovine milk.  Non-casein or
whey proteins, which predominate
in milk, are acidified in the stomach forming soft flocculant curds.  These
quickly digest, supplying a continuous flow of nutrients to the baby.  By
contrast caseins, the primary protein in untreated bovine milk, form a tough,
less digestible curd which requires high expenditure of energy for an
incomplete digestive process."

        So... would someone with some training in all this (on my list of
necessary degrees to add to my BS in psych and MA in Teaching, nutrition,
physiology, biochemistry...) care to comment on this issue?
        I'm thinking this will be akin to PKU -- with the answer re breastmilk or
no, lying somewhere in the realms of monitored combination....?
        Of the currently available formula's are any "casein free?"

facscinated,
Anne

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