It looks like we have been greeted with more research which will make moms 
doubt their ability to provide optimal nutrition for their babies without 
the benefit of the pharmeceutical industry.

Headline:  Study Shows Supplementing with Martek DHA (TM) While 
Breastfeeding Improves Psychomotor Skills in Toddlers
Thursday July 9, 9:31 ET

Study Adds to Growing Body of Research Showing Long-Term Benefit of Maternal 
DHA Supplementation

Infants of mothers who supplemented with Martek DHA (TM) (docosahexaenoic 
acid) while breastfeeding had improved psychomotor skills at 2 1/2 years of 
age, according to a study published this month in the American Journal of 
Clinical Nutrition....

...The study also confirmed that DHA supplementation while breastfeeding 
effectively increases DHA levels in the mother's milk as well as in the 
infant's blood.  The moms supplemented with DHA had 75% more DHA in their 
breast milk than the control group and their infants had 35% higher DHA 
blood levels than the control group of infants..

from http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050707/dcth018.html?.v=18

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It is interesting to me that the same journal reported in January 2003 that 
supplementation with dietary flaxseed oil had NO EFFECT "on breast-milk, 
plasma and erythrocyte DHA contents.  (see 
http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/full/77/1/226).

Also, I was unable to find the article referenced in the Yahoo business news 
in the journal itself at http://www.ajcn.org/.  It looks like it is in the 
July issue which is not yet available.

Sara Dodder Furr
Lincoln, Nebraska

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