I would very much like to find a research paper that discusses this.  Isn't that why iron fortified formula is now so widely recommended?  Weren't infants becoming anemic because of this bleeding?  I once mentioned that I heard this at a conference and it was received with disbelief and shock by my co-workers -- I looked around on the web for a bit but couldn't really find anything to back it up so have kept quiet about it ever since.
>>>>>>>>
Date:    Sun, 23 Nov 2003 20:41:44 -0500
From:    Barbara Berges <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: correlated?  causative?

>>>>However, maybe it can be shown, for example, that microscopic intestinal
bleeding in the gut is caused by formula feeding.  Then that injury to the
intestine allows other factors to lead to illness in the baby.  Then would
we be able to say that formula feeding causes illness?  I am still trying to
figure all this out for myself, too."<<<<<<<<<<<






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