Australian Lactnetters might be interested in the comments of this year's Australian of the year. I found it significant that the health problems that she listed are ones in which not breastfeeding can play a role. I wonder whether she is supportive of breastfeeding? Karleen Gribble Australia http://www.abc.net.au/am/s770446.htm Australian of the Year warns of looming health crisis LINDA MOTTRAM: The scientist named as Australian of the Year is warning this morning of a crisis in the health of Australia's young people. Professor Fiona Stanley, renowned specialist pediatric epidemiologist, says that a social crisis looms, if there is not action to tackle children's health and behavioural problems. Our reporter Hamish Fitzsimmons has been speaking to Professor Stanley. PROFESSOR FIONA STANLEY: Our research and our data are showing over the last two or three decades that almost every single indicator that we have of child health, developmental problems, wellbeing of children, is actually getting worse. And these aren't just things that, you know, kids will grow out of or something like that. HAMISH FITZSIMMONS: What sort of problems are there though, specifically? PROFESSOR FIONA STANLEY: Well, specifically, the specific things I'm talking about are a whole lot of what we call complex diseases, I mean things like asthma, type one diabetes, autism, bowel disorders in children, when which there's obviously some kind of genetic pre-disposition, but also quite considerable environmental interactions with that risk. *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html