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"Mary Kay Smith, RN, IBCLC" <[log in to unmask]>
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Lactation Information and Discussion <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 29 Oct 2004 21:42:13 EDT
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Ellen,
Welcome back to the List. Perhaps this may be of interest to you and  others.
I recently had an email exchange with a colleague who had seen the article
and asked what we could say to others who brought it up as a negative about
breast milk. Please feel free to tweak this but here's my message to her. Some
of it is courtesy of an email from Jane Heinig, editor of JHL, who sent a
rebuttal to the WSJ article.  The bolded statements are from her and the  rest
are my words.


"The Wall Street Journal reported only that antioxidant activity  decreased
in breast milk after storage while the antioxidant activity in formula
remained stable, not that breast milk had significantly better antioxidant  activity
than formula no matter how it was stored"

This is the KEY statement to share with anyone who mis-interprets this
"study" - that formula "remains stable" because it has NO living components and
does not change - BUT it's activity is lower than breast milk to begin with. I
am going to memorize the last sentence in that paragraph and suggest that all
LCs and Breastfeeding advocates do the same.

It's all in the interpretation of information and I believe that the
anti-breastfeeding forces always put a negative spin on it no matter what it  really
says."

Mary Kay Smith, RN, IBCLC
Canton  MI


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