Hot Topics - Alternatives - Breastfeeding (vs. formula)

Hot Topics - Alternatives - Breastfeeding (vs. formula)

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Alternatives - Breastfeeding (vs. formula)

March 1-7, 2004

►March 2, 2004 - Breastfeeding Lowers Blood Pressure - Circulation via Ivanhoe

►March 1, 2004 - Report: Standard Tests Not Enough for Baby Formula - Reuters via Yahoo!

►January 8, 2004 - Review in Advance - Isoflavones in Soy Infant Formula: A Review of Evidence for Endocrine and Other Activity in Infants - journal article (Annual Review of Nutrition)

February 23-29, 2004

►February 29, 2004 - Facts on breast milk and breast-feeding - The Jakarta Post - "Breast milk is not only the best food for baby but should be the only food in the first six months of its life...'Breast-feeding can go on for two years or as long as both parties still want to do it,' said pediatrician Utami Roesli from the Indonesian Lactation Center...Research also shows that illnesses like infections of the respiratory and digestive systems, meningitis and allergies are much higher with formula milk consumption...Breast milk consumption can also prevent coronary artery disease and ischaemic heart disease at a young age."

Comment:  For some references concerning breastfeeding and infectious disease, click here.

►February 27, 2004 - 'Probiotic' Baby Formula Deemed Safe in Study - Reuters via Yahoo!

►February 24, 2004 - Chemical PBDE Showing Up in Breast Milk - AP via The Herald-Sun

►February 20, 2004 - Breast knows best (requires registration or subscription) - BioMedNet

►February 24, 2004 - Chemical PBDE Showing Up in Breast Milk - AP via The Herald-Sun

February 16-22, 2004

►February 21, 2004 - FAO/WHO meeting warns of contamination of powdered infant formula - journal article (BMJ)

►February 12, 2004 - Breastfed Baby Exposed to Smallpox Vaccine Virus - Reuters via Yahoo! News 

►February 17, 2004 - Breast-Feeding At Work - ADHS Promotes And Practices Policy - Arizona Capitol Times - "As a site supervisor and nutritionist with the Maricopa County Department of Public Health, Ms. Ogden is determined to erase the stigma associated with breast-feeding in the workplace. She’s not alone...The Arizona Department of Health Services has initiated a breast-feeding program to address issues and increase the practice though education, awareness and policy change. The program promotes breast-feeding as the superior method of feeding infants and young children in order to build their immunity to disease and help form strong, straight teeth."

Comment: Kudos the Ms. Ogden and the Arizona Department of Health!

February 9-15, 2004

none selected this week

January 26 - February 8, 2004 (2 weeks combined due to illness)

►February  2004 - Long-term consumption of infant formulas containing live probiotic bacteria: tolerance and safety - journal article (American Journal of Clinical Nutrition)

January 19-25, 2004

none selected this week

January 12-18, 2004

►January 14, 2004 - Magazine Bares All, Has Shop Covering Up Cover - The Santa Fe New Mexican - "Increasing the number of women who nurse their babies is a goal of the U.S. government. But pictures of breast-feeding, which is as old as humankind and strongly recommended for infant health, is apparently offensive to some...After receiving several complaints about the latest issue of Mothering magazine, which shows a nursing mother and contented baby, the Vitamin Cottage on Cerrillos Road covered the offending breast with paper."

Comment:  This kind of thing is a big part of what's wrong with health in America.  And at a vitamin shop, of all places.

January 5-11, 2004

►January 11, 2004 - Moms with HIV encouraged to breastfeed - www.startribune.com - "'You can't just say, "Don't breastfeed." That's a death sentence for many babies. Fine, they won't get HIV, but they will die of diarrhea,' said Jean Humphrey, who heads Zvitambo, a research project funded in part by Canada that examines HIV and breastfeeding in Zimbabwe."

►January 2004 - Comparison of evoked arousability in breast and formula fed infants - journal article (Archives of Diseases in Childhood)

►January 2, 2004 - Infant formula milk contains dangerous bug - Traces of a bacterium that can cause serious illness in newborns has been found in each of four infant formula milk factories tested...A study, published in the Lancet, looked for the presence of a bug called E. sakazakii, which can cause meningitis or severe gut infections...Several outbreaks among premature babies have been recorded, and in this vulnerable group, mortality is high - between 40% and 80%...Cases have not emerged among babies more than a few weeks old unless their immune systems have been already weakened by other conditions...Some premature babies cannot breastfeed, or are deliberately given specially enriched formula feed from birth in an effort to maximise weight gain in the first weeks of life."

Comment:  Call me crazy, but maybe even premature infants who "cannot" breastfeed could be fed breast milk.  And perhaps the notion that infants need to  "maximise weight gain in the first weeks of life" should be reexamined if the method for accomplishing that is to feed formula rather than breastmilk.

►December 2003 - Low Breastfeeding Rates and Public Health in the United States - journal article (American Journal of Public Health)

December 29, 2003 - January 4, 2004

none selected this week

December 22-28, 2003

►November 2003 - Breastfeeding status as a predictor of mortality among refugee children in an emergency situation in Guinea-Bissau - journal article (Tropical Medicine & International Health)

December 15-21, 2003

none selected this week

December 8-14, 2003

December 2003 - Educate Moms on Breast-Feeding Preterm Infants - Promotional strategies (requires registration) - ePediatric News

December 2003 - Can breast-feeding or diet affect rates of atopic dermatitis? - Breast-feeding is the best way to nourish infants, but it does not necessarily prevent atopic dermatitis. (requires registration) - journal article (Infectious Diseases In Children)

December 1-7, 2003

The deadly influence of formula in America - A Natural Family Online Special Report (short version) - Natural Family Online

November 24-30, 2003

November 25, 2003 - Emory and CDC scientists explore why most breastfed infants of HIV-positive mothers resist infection – www.eurekalert.org  

November 24, 2003 - Breast Intentions - Burger King has promised to welcome nursing women at their restaurants.  If only they could make their food as healthy as mother's milk - MSNBC

November 17-23, 2003

November 21, 2003 - Burger King Adopts Breast-Feeding Policy - Burger King Adopts Corporate Policy Allowing Breast-Feeding Day Before 'Nurse-In' - AP via ABC News - "'We want to be a family friendly place," said Rob Doughty, vice president for strategic communications for Miami-based Burger King. "We want to be responsive to our customers, and didn't know this was a big issue. Unfortunately in Utah, it went directly to the press, and we didn't have a chance to take a look at it.'...He said 20 states, including Utah, allow breast-feeding in public."

 

November 22, 2003 - Effect of breast feeding in infancy on blood pressure in later life: systematic review and meta-analysis -  journal article (BMJ)

November 10-16, 2003

Breast-feeding promotes wound healing - Rat study may fuel breast-versus-bottle debate.  - Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, New Orleans, November 2003 via Nature

Breast-feeding high beats cocaine - BioMedNet (requires registration)

German Company Admits Defect in Infant Food - The New York Times

German Company Says Baby Formula Lacked Vital Ingredient - The New York Times - What about doing more to encourage breastfeeding?

November 3-9, 2003

none selected this week

 

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