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...turns out that the target is the gastro-intestinal system, and if we can purify the factor, then we might be able to help children who can't be breast-fed for one reason or another,' Tapper said yesterday...
...Breast-milk is like a neonatal candy store with little goodies for all the kids. This is just a new treat," he added...
However, Klagsburn said, he could not speculate whether his find supports breast-feeding rather than the use of infant formulas in underdeveloped regions of the world...
...Nestles states that "the preponderance of available evidence points to a mother's need, or desire, to work as the principal reason for the breast feeding decline." My review of studies from Third World countries and my own work suggests this is not the case. An analysis of recently published studies from five countries in Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Caribbean suggests that no more than 6 per cent of mothers in any country said they gave up breast feeding in order to work...
There are many factors which influence mothers in developing countries to bottle feed rather than breast feed their infants. These include a lack of encouragement by health professionals, the fact that the breast has become a sex symbol and the belief that breast feeding may alter the contour of the breast, and the false impression that breast feeding is primitive and bottle feeding is sophisticated. But the main reason that women in developing countries bottle feed is that they falsely believe it is better for their infants. This belief has come largely from the promotional practices of the corporations...