Check out: http://www.acsh.org/press/releases/growinghealthy070898.html
A site that claims to sort out scientific fact from fiction says this:
"Physicians and scientists of the American Council on Science and Health
(ACSH) demystify infant and child nutrition in a new report.

"Growing Healthy Kids: A Parents' Guide to Infant and Child Nutrition
describes the nutritional needs and developmental stages of infants and  young
children and provides sound, commonsensical feeding suggestions.  . . . .
infants can get a good nutritional start in life whether they are breast–fed
or formula–fed. While human breast milk is the “gold standard” for infant
feeding, modern infant formulas are designed to copy closely the composition
of breast milk.  “Mothers should not feel they are ‘cheating’ their babies if
they cannot or do not choose to breast feed,” says ACSH President Dr.
Elizabeth Whelan.

Dr. Whelan can be reached at <<[log in to unmask]>>

Yours,
Alice Martino, LLLL, lurking and learning on Lactnet