Almost home town! Not far from Newcastle at all (in fact my husband works
there) but I didn't know about this conference! However, Julie Smith I know,
she's an ABA counsellor (a Director in fact) and has done a fabulous job in
drawing attention to the economic value of breastfeeding in Australia. Gotta
convince the pollies that they need to listen to US and not to those who
want to sell a drug or immunisation or whatever to treat illness largely
caused by premature weaning from breastfeeding.
Karleen Gribble
Australia

> I was browsing the British Medical Journal and was alerted to this website
> www.diseasemongering.org
>
> In Karleen Gribble's home town, the first ever conference on disease
> mongering was just held this week.  Among the abstracts freely available
at
> the above website is one on "Selling sickness to mothers and babies -
> historical perspectives on infant food advertising and breastfeeding
> practices in Australia".   The author, a Dr Julie P. Smith, notes that
> infant food marketing sells sickness in two ways, and I quote:
> "promoting use of a product that multiplies risks of illness and disease,
> even in developed countries like Australia by 2-3 fold; and, marketing
> strategies which undermine breastfeeding as the norm for infant feeding by
> inventing multiple categories of 'special' babies with health conditions
> justifying artificial milk formula"

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