In a message dated 08/15/2004 2:00:30 PM EST, [log in to unmask]
writes:

<< " DID YOU KNOW?
 How did babies survive on breast milk alone throughout evolution if, as we
 now know, breastfed infants need extra vitamins and iron in their daily
 diet?  The noted infant nutritionist Samuel J. Fomon, M.D., professor of
 pediatrics at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, says that because people
 historically lived outside most of the tme, infants got iron from contact
 with the soil and significant vitamin K by ingesting the bacteria in their
 unsanitary environment.  Also, unlike babies who are raised indoors, they
 were exposed to much more sunlight, which converts body chemicals into
 Vitamin D."
  >>

Wow, does this make breastfeeding look bad or what? As soon as you put in
"contact with the soil" and ""ingesting bacteria from their unsanitary
environments", I can just hear mothers saying "eww, breastfeeding was so old-fashioned,
I don't let my baby eat dirt or play with bacteria" so formula seems so much
cleaner and modern..."
Katharine's comments about fermentation and normal bacterial ingestion would
have made things clearer for sure. Hard to believe a nutrition professor
wouldn't know that...
Judy LeVan Fram, PT, IBCLC, LLLL, Brooklyn, NY, USA

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