Today's Dining Out section in the New York Times includes an article by Marian Burros entitled "For Soy, the Time May Have Finally Come." It's about how healthful it is believed to be for adults to add some soy to their diet, and how Americans are finally doing that. About halfway down there is a paragraph that states, carefully enough, "Studies have suggested that soy products also offer protection against breast and prostate cancer and may ease menopausal symptoms. Soy contains phytoestrogens called isoflavones that do have a weak estrogenic effect. But . . . evidence about soy's benefits is still not proven except for the cholesterol-lowering effect. No long-term human clinical trials have been conducted..." She is obviously writing about adults, but I am sure many readers will take away from this piece the implicit idea that soy formulas are probably healthier than cow's milk formulas. If someone more knowledgeable and more credentialed than I were to write a letter TODAY to the New York Times pointing out that this is not so -- that adding a bit of soy for an adult is different from taking a baby and feeding it nothing but soy, etc -- it would have a good chance, I think, of being published, and might expose a lot of people who have never thought about this before to the idea. Maureen Minchin, are you out there? Or other researchers with good initials after their names? Larry Gartner, are you on line? (However please folks remember that this article was a GOOD article about real health benefits, carefully phrased, that did not say ANYTHING explicit about formula or children at all! So no flaming the New York Times please! The idea is to be *adding* to the store of readers' knowledge, rather than disagreeing with the article.) I don't see an address in the paper for letters to the editor. I'm pretty sure you can email off of the Times website, though. (www.nytimes.com) Hopefully, Elisheva Urbas uncredentialled bf-supporting Times reader in New York City *********************************************** 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