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To: LindyBill who wrote (214263)	8/2/2007 5:29:28 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793964

When the Health Department says, "you hospitals can't give the mothers formula," they have a gun in their hand. Seems to me that whether the hospitals were private or public would matter. Public hospitals and the Health Department operate with political oversight.

To: LindyBill who wrote (214263)	8/2/2007 5:30:48 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793964

I understand your view, but I also question the system that allows a powerful lobby, an industry that spends huge amounts of money providing freebies, perks, vacations on pediatricians and health care workers to negatively influence the health of our children beginning on the first day of their lives. It would be nice if both sides would act responsibly. When the overall health of formula-fed infants in the U.S. is compared to that of breast-fed infants -- even after controlling for variables such as parents' socioeconomic backgrounds -- it becomes clear that formula-fed babies are sicker, sick more often, and are more likely to die in infancy or childhood. However, parents often lack access to this information, and in fact, are often the recipients of misinformation, thus denied the ability to make truly informed choices regarding how they will feed their babies. Although the phrase "breast-feeding is best" is tossed around so liberally as to have been rendered almost meaningless, many Americans are under the mistaken impression that today's commercial infant formulas are nearly identical to human milk.