Actually Nina, It is not Dr.Buescher who made the comments about bf in the developing world- that is a quote from the Slate article. Dr.Buescher is amazingly entertaining and definitely communicates the exciting things he studies about human milk! I think it would be a wonderful thing if more people in the US heard about breastmilk from him! I do understand your frustration though, in the distinction between developed and developing nations. warmly, Jennifer, LLLL in FL >From: Nina Berry <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: Stephen Buescher reply to Slate Magazine article > >Hi all >Of course, I am not really annoyed with Dr Buescher and I can see that >everything he says is accurate. The difficulty is with communication. >Scientists are notoriously bad at communicating the significance of their >(exciting, fascinating, accurate) knowledge of their very specific areas of >expertise to the bigger picture. I am frustrated because I can see that the >US (even more than here, where at least we have decent initiation rates) >needs a strong consistent public health message - that breastfeeding is >important to human health. I don't think that most people understand that >such a piece is discussing one very limited area of immunobiology - and >they >extrapolate (given an ambient culture that is hostile towards breastfeeding >- ar at least more supportive of artificial feeding) that breastfeeding >doesn't matter all that much after all - and that is what gets up my >...um... nose. > >Cheers >Nina Berry BA/Bed(Hons) Dip Arts(Phil) >Breastfeeding Counsellor >PhD Candidate - "Ethical Issues in the marketing of 'Toddler Milks'" > *********************************************** Archives: http://community.lsoft.com/archives/LACTNET.html Mail all commands to [log in to unmask] To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or [log in to unmask]) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet or ([log in to unmask]) To reach list owners: [log in to unmask]