1st APRIL FOOLS DAY!!!!! (emphasis only)
I still remember the mothers milk cheese we had as a joke a couple of years
ago.
Some chinese researchers provided women with a breastpump and paid them for
their milk to make mother's milk chees out of it :-D !!!
regards,
Renate Rietveld, IBCLC
Rijswijk, The Netherlands
At 09:17 1-4-00 EST, you wrote:
>Now I have heard it all!!!! Denise G Hewson RN IBCLC Katy, Texas
>
>Little pill sweetens mothers' milk
>SCIENCE: Dietary experts identify compound which improves taste of
breastmilk
>while retaining essential nutrients.
>
>4/1/2000
>
>By JEFF DOBB
>The Associated Press
>
>A controversial breakthrough in lactational dietetics has produced a pill
>which can add appetizing flavors to breastmilk. It is expected that infants
>who reject the breast will find the new flavors appealing.
>
>The research adds to an expanding body of evidence that breastmilk is the
>preferred form of infant nutrition in the first six months— however many
>women resort to formula when their infant rejects the breast.
>
>It also provides evidence for the theory that exposure to greater varieties
>of flavoring agents in the breastmilk can reduce the chances of obesity in
>later life, the researchers say.
>
>The researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, built their
>study on an already known quirk of human anatomy: Certain strongly flavored
>substances pass through the mother's milk and are ingested by her baby.
>
>Scientists believe that women's cyclic variation in progesterone levels; —
>and the female sex hormones such as testosterone that are found in both
sexes
>— create an unpleasant taste in the breastmilk of premenstrual women which
>may account for infants rejecting the breast.
>
>In the study published today in the journal Nature, the researchers
>interviewed 720 women at three major hospitals in Los Angeles, asked them
>their breastfeeding plans, and tested their milk before and after a course
of
>the new pill.
>
>The milk of mothers in the control study who ate a bland diet altered
>significantly at various times of their cycle — with the higher hormone
>levels creating a bitter taste in their milk. — The milk of the mothers
who
>had taken the new pill was pleasantly vanilla flavored with no detectable
>variation throughout the woman's cycle.
>
>The pills which are subject to FDA approval will initally be available in
>three basic flavors, chocolate, vanilla and strawberry however researchers
>are also working on cinnamon and banana flavors and hope to branch into
>featured flavors such as egg nog for the festive season.
>
>The researchers then went a step further, enabling the mothers to benefit
>from their discovery. The pills are chewable, allowing the mother to
>experience the flavor before it passes through her milk to her baby. Most
>women reported the pills to be pleasant tasting and "not too sweet"
>
>Paula Williamson, an adviser with the National Association of Pediatric
>Nutritionists, said some mothers would welcome such findings because "They
>know breast is best for their babies and they feel like they have failed
when
>their baby rejects the breast due to the changes in the taste fo their
milk."
>She said this would be particularly welcomed by mothers who wish to enjoy
>spicy foods and fear their babies will no longer want to nurse. "This pill
>will mask the taste of garlic and other flavors babies may find unpleasant"
>
>But she said ultimately the question of flavoring mother's milk cause should
>not bear on the debate over breast versus bottle. "This is simply another
>option" she said.
>
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