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]