Saturday, July 19, 2003

ClickOnDetroit.com - News - Woman Allegedly Harassed For Breast-Feeding At Taco Bell:

POSTED: 7:36 p.m. EDT July 14, 2003
A local mother said nursing her baby sent a Southfield Taco Bell manager into a frenzy, Local 4 reported."
CBC Saskatchewan: "
Breast milk bank demanded

REGINA - The Breastfeeding Committee for Saskatchewan is lobbying for human milk banks in the province, saying there's a demand for hospitals to offer the service to mothers and their babies.

The Committee also wants the milk banks so women have an alternative to formula."

Monday, July 14, 2003

"Support Crucial for Breastfeeding Mom



(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- New research adds to the growing body of literature that suggests support and encouragement from health care providers is needed to keep women breastfeeding for a longer time.

The current breastfeeding rates fall short of the goals set in the Healthy People 2010 and other national recommendations. Currently, 29 percent of moms are still breastfeeding when their infant is 6 months old. The goal is to raise that number to 50 percent. Researchers from Harvard Pediatric Health Services Research Fellowship Program conducted a study to determine why women decide to stop breastfeeding before their infant is 12 weeks old."

Saturday, July 12, 2003

A bold effort to get mums to breastfeed - JULY 12, 2003: "
A bold effort to get mums to breastfeed

Poster, designed for maximum impact, will be given to polyclinics, hospitals and shopping centres for their nursing rooms

By Wendy Tan and Fiona Chan

A GRAPHIC poster featuring a pair of babies suckling on their mother's breasts will be used to commemorate World Breastfeeding Week next month.

The mother, her breasts engorged, bends over the babies."
Dr. Koop-Support Crucial for Breastfeeding Mom: "Support Crucial for Breastfeeding Mom



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Monday, July 07, 2003

NPIcenter - Natural Products Industry Center News Nutraceutical Regulatory Information: "Posted: 7/7/2003


Global Experts Converge at IFT: Cognis Unveils Innovative Natural Ingredients and Solutions to Enhance Health Benefits of Foods and Beverages












July 1, 2003, LaGrange, IL%u2014Cognis Nutrition and Health, a global leader in concept-driven solutions and natural ingredients for the food industry, will unveil a range of innovative, health-enhancing products and services at The Institute of Food Technologists Annual Meeting & Food Expo in Chicago beginning July 12."
Blood pressure and bottle feeding: "Blood pressure and bottle feeding
(Monday, 7th July 2003)

Link between BP and diet in babyhood?

Further evidence that nutrition in the early months of life may affect blood pressure (BP) measurements in adulthood has been published by researchers from the UK.

Richard Martin and his team, from the Universities of Bristol and Wales, followed-up participants in the Barry Caerphilly Growth Study, born in the years 1972 to 1974, who were currently in their twenties. As babies, half had been given extra supplements of dried formula milk (based on cows' milk), while the other half had breastfed or formula fed according to their mothers' preference. In the early 1970s, breastfeeding was not fashionable and large numbers of babies were formula fed. "

Saturday, July 05, 2003

Mother sues Wal-Mart over infant formula - 2003-06-18 - The Business Review (Albany): "June 18, 2003
Mother sues Wal-Mart over infant formula
Eric Durr
The Business Review

A Clifton Park woman is suing Wal-Mart for $12 million, alleging that the pharmacy at the company's Half Moon store misfilled a doctor's prescription for special infant formula, defrauding the government and endangering the health of her children.

The lawsuit, filed June 16 in Supreme Court in Saratoga County, is seeking personal injury and punitive damages from the nation's largest retailer, said Charlene Fallon, a partner in the Albany, N.Y., and Glens Falls firm Linnan & Fallon LLP, which filed the suit.

Wal-Mart representatives had no immediate comment on the lawsuit.

According to the lawsuit, Lisa Coons, the mother of prematurely born twins Hunter Coons and Chloe Coons, was directed by her doctor to obtain a special infant formula for the children -- Infamil Premature Iron Fortified with LIPIL. She was given a voucher from the Women Infants and Children nutrition program (WIC) to pay for the formula."
Dioxins only one danger
[Tireless Dr. Jack Newman writes a letter to the Globe and Mail - JC]


"By JACK NEWMAN
MD, FRCPC
Saturday, July 5, 2003 - Page A16

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Toronto -- What has Andr? Picard got against breast-feeding? It seems that I have never seen an article of his that mentions breast-feeding in a good light. Today's article (Girls Urged To Limit Dioxin-Laced Foods -- July 3), mentions at least three times how much dioxin is in breast milk, with the implication that breast milk is dangerous. He never even mentions the usual 'but breastfeeding is still best for babies and young children.' It is, Mr. Picard."
PM - New blueprint for healthy eating
ABC Radio

"MARK COLVIN: For something so basic to our lives, the whole question of food and diet is becoming increasingly baffling for modern Australians. Today a peak health body tries to simplify it for us with a new blueprint for healthy eating. It's the first update of official dietary guidelines in a decade.

The National Health and Medical Research Council, which prepared the guidelines, says that for babies, breast is best for the first six months of a child's life. And the problem of obesity, even in children, has led it to call for low-fat dairy products, for everyone, including children as young as two.

Annie White reports.

ANNIE WHITE: First there was the pyramid, then the plate, and now a jigsaw puzzle metaphor to explain what the country's leading health and nutrition experts believe we should be eating. The puzzle is made up of guidelines for things like salt, fat and sugar intake.

But to start at the beginning, the NHMRC is now recommending breast milk be the only food for the fist six months of life.

Nutritionist and Chair of the working party which devised the guidelines, Dr Katrine Baghurst.

KATRINE BAGHURST: It's the same with all the guidelines, they are public health guidelines, but then it's up to the individual to work out how they can best achieve those or what they can do. So we do say, if you can't manage it, then for as long and exclusively as you can, is better than not attempting it at all.

ANNIE WHITE: Having knocked back a national paid maternity leave scheme, the Government still supports mothers breast feeding for as much of the first 6 months as they can manage.

Health Minister, Kay Patterson.

KAY PATTERSON: I think what we've got is the very best that one can do and it is difficult if somebody is working, but people sometimes manage expression of milk, they also....I think it's important that they don't feel guilty. But what these guidelines are doing is saying what is really the absolute best practice...."
New Research Shows Eye Development Benefits in Infant Formula: "New Research Shows Eye Development Benefits in Infant Formula
New Study Published in The Journal of Pediatrics Shows Fatty Acids Enhance Eye Development


"CHICAGO, IL -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 06/20/2003 -- Two fatty acids added to baby formula assist in eye development, according to a new study published in The Journal of Pediatrics. While there's no disputing breastfeeding is best, the research suggests infant formulas are moving closer to providing the benefits of breast milk. Study highlights:..."
Taipei Times - archives: "Association says breast is the best
By Melody Chen
STAFF REPORTER
Monday, Jun 30, 2003,Page 2

More than 100 pairs of parents yesterday brought their babies along to a function celebrating the establishment of the Breastfeeding Association Taiwan (BRA), the country's first organization to promote breastfeeding.

Chen Chao-huei (³¯¬L´f), chief of the neonatology division in Tai-chung Veterans General Hospital, was the author of an article exploring the relationship between SARS and breastfeeding. She attended the function to answer questions about breastfeeding.

There are no ready statistics on the prevalence of breastfeeding in Taiwan at the moment, but Chen said in the country's 'mother-baby-friendly hospitals,' around 80 to 90 percent of mothers breastfeed their newborn babies."
Enzymotec launches InFat- perfect fat for infant formulas: "


Incorporating InFat into infant formulas will increase baby"
Got milk? Then Berkeley wants you to join the battle of the breastfeeders

"City hopes to retain last year's world record status at Aug. 9 marathon event
By Angela Hill, STAFF WRITER
BERKELEY -- In a matter of weeks, more than1,000 fierce female competitors, chapped sore from months of rigorous training, will engage in a battle to retain Berkeley's world-record status in an event so fulfilling, so titillating, so overrun with babies that if Dr. Spock were still alive this would probably kill him.

Indeed, it is time once again for the breastfeeding marathon, which last year drew a whopping 1,130 lactating ladies and their wee ones to the Berkeley Community Theater auditorium, putting Berkeley in the Guinness Book of World Records."

Friday, July 04, 2003

ic Liverpool - Donors to deliver for babies born early: "Donors to deliver for babies born early

Jul 4 2003

By Sam Lister Daily Post Staff


PREMATURE babies are to benefit from a new human milk bank which has opened in Chester.

Mothers can now donate surplus breast milk to the Coun-tess of Chester Hospital's specialist baby unit where it will be used to bottle feed to newborns on the ward.

It is hoped the milk, which is easier for tiny stomachs to absorb than the diary formula version, will boost the growth of babies who are born early.

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Thursday, July 03, 2003

The Globe and Mail: "Girls warned to cut back on meat, whole milk"

By ANDRÉ PICARD
From Thursday's Globe and Mail


"Girls should markedly cut back their consumption of red meat, poultry and whole milk to reduce their exposure to dioxin, a chemical that can build up in the body and, in their childbearing years, harm their babies, a U.S. scientific panel says."
...
The levels of dioxins in the breast milk of women in Canada's Far North is five-times higher than among women in the south."
toledoblade.com: "Nitrates in Fremont water unsafe for babies to drink

FREMONT "

Tuesday, July 01, 2003

Taipei Times - archives: "Association says breast is the best
By Melody Chen
STAFF REPORTER
Monday, Jun 30, 2003,Page 2

More than 100 pairs of parents yesterday brought their babies along to a function celebrating the establishment of the Breastfeeding Association Taiwan (BRA), the country's first organization to promote breastfeeding.

Chen Chao-huei (³¯¬L´f), chief of the neonatology division in Tai-chung Veterans General Hospital, was the author of an article exploring the relationship between SARS and breastfeeding. She attended the function to answer questions about breastfeeding.

There are no ready statistics on the prevalence of breastfeeding in Taiwan at the moment, but Chen said in the country's 'mother-baby-friendly hospitals,' around 80 to 90 percent of mothers breastfeed their newborn babies."
Herald Sun: More new mums go under knife [02jul03]: "More new mums go under knife
By KELLY RYAN and JEN KELLY
02jul03

MORE than one in three Melbourne women have their babies delivered by surgery.

A snapshot of birthing options reveals Francis Perry House in Carlton has the highest percentage of caesarean deliveries each year.

Higher caesarean rates at some birthing centres reflect their specialised care for the growing number of older, first-time mums and IVF babies."
Food Ingredients First: Nutrition, Ingredients and Foods Online - Newsmaker: "Martek`s DHA and ARA important after breastfeeding- study


Infants receiving the DHA and ARA-supplemented formula demonstrated significantly more mature visual acuity than those infants fed the non- supplemented formula.

30/06/2003 Columbia, Martek Biosciences Corporation commented on the results of a study published in the June 2003 edition of The Journal of Pediatrics. Data from the study demonstrated that infants weaned onto formula supplemented with the long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LCPUFAs) docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and arachidonic acid (ARA) experienced significantly improved visual development at one year of age compared to infants weaned onto formula not supplemented with DHA and ARA."