"Breast-Feed or Else



By RONI RABIN
Published: June 13, 2006
Warning: Public health officials have determined that not breast-feeding may
be hazardous to your baby's health.


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Kenneth Dickerman for The New York Times
Kymberlie Stefanski has nursed all three of her daughters.
There is no black-box label like that affixed to cans of infant formula or
tucked into the corner of magazine advertisements, at least not yet. But
that is the unambiguous message of a controversial government public health
campaign encouraging new mothers to breast-feed for six months to protect
their babies from colds, flu, ear infections, diarrhea and even obesity. In
April, the World Health Organization, setting new international bench marks
for children's growth, for the first time referred to breast-feeding as the
biological norm. "

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