Hey Maureen,
Thanks for your incisive and thoughful post.
It is easy to read the headlines and gloss over the details. Your post is a
reminder that things are always more compliocated than meets the eye.
I have not ready your book... yet... but look forward ot it.
Cheers,
- Dia
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> Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 02:31:25 +1000
> From: Maureen MINCHIN <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: UK paper on BF and IQ
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> I do wish people would read all the info in my new book, Milk matters:
> infant feeding and immune disorder, about cognition, intelligence and modes
> of feeding.I’m not going to recite lots of stuff here, I wrote the book to
> make it available to anyone serious about knowing what infant formula is
> and is doing, has been and has done. You’ll be shocked by what you read.
>
> But for starters, research needs to consider the (separate) effects of
> being breastfed, of not being breastfed, of being breastmilk-fed, and of
> being fed very different formulas -they are NOT all the same - in very
> different ways.
>
> There is the historical evidence of studies through the 20th century which
> consistently show advantage to the breastfed even though it was not until
> the 1970s that advantaged women were the breastfeeders. Poor women
> continued to breastfed while the advantaged took up formula feeding.
>
> There are MRIs showing differences in brain white matter development in
> not-breastfed children. There are the unquestionable facts of excess
> protein (wrong balance of amino acids/neurotransmitters) and deficient
> fatty acids composition of infant formulas, the excessive manganese, the
> selenium deficiency, the lead exposure, umpteen other factors all of which
> affect neurological development and function in animals (humans aren’t
> animals????) More DNA damage and chromosomal breaks in the not-breastfed
> might also be relevant to how brains function.
>
> But any study of UK twins (more likely to be preterm, fed antibiotics,
> fed formula early, weaned early in any society that makes breastfeeding
> hard for singletons, much less multiples) that divides them into ever
> versus never breastfed is simply not a credible basis for population-based
> generalisations about inteliigence and infant feeding. We know now that
> microbiomes affect all aspects of development, and I doubt there were many
> normal microbiomes to be found in those twins. Come on, people, whether
> it’s 11 families or 11,000, bad research is bad research. And data mining
> can usually give you whatever you want to say. And the media really wants
> to say that breastfeeding makes no difference, because women need to be in
> the paid workforce and babies are needed in childcare services. “We have to
> reassure parents that infant formula is safe because American society
> depends on bottle feeding.” If you don’t recognise that quote from a FDA
> official you haven’t read my book!
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> Maureen MINCHIN
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