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>This is not in any way to suggest that we stop talking about the health
>benefits of breastfeeding or spreading the word on the research-based data.
>Just some food for thought on why it's sometimes so hard to convince people
>it's important.
This has been discussed in some detail before on LactNet. Search the 95-96
archives for "anecdotal" or "epidemiological" and that will take you at
least some of the posts on this topic.
Kathy Dettwyler
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