Startling new report on infant formula and introduction of fruits and grains

Luv2dnce81 · June 2011

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/16/infant-formula-linked-diabetes_n_876317.html

vanverth · June 2011

I will tell you what I hate about these kinds of articles. This is an inital study. So these results have only been found once. More research needs to be done. Also, what is "early in life"? That is not an age. Is 4 months too early, 6 months, a year? Just an article to make people who FF feel guilty for giving their child a chronic disease.

SailorGray · June 2011

I am so tired of these reports. I didn't even read it (sorry, OP). Your damned if you do and damned if you don't...

kcisthebombdotcom · June 2011

vanverth:
I will tell you what I hate about these kinds of articles. This is an inital study. So these results have only been found once. More research needs to be done. Also, what is "early in life"? That is not an age. Is 4 months too early, 6 months, a year? Just an article to make people who FF feel guilty for giving their child a chronic disease.

Exactly.

It's really hard to link FF (or BF) to any diseases (or the prevention of diseases). There's too many other factors at play. It could be from the formula (or BM), but there might be other factors (like how the children are fed throughout the course of their childhood) that might be causing the result.

NiniJ55 · June 2011

This is ridiculous. What is early is life supposed to mean and what's the alternative. I was able to successfully BF until DS turned one -- but if I needed to formula feed him, I would have. What would be the alternative -- not provide him with the milk he needs to grow?

Abinormal · June 2011

Are f-ing kidding me?? Seriously? Ok, people, many of the people in my generation were fed formula, since breastfeeding wasn't the "popular" thing to do when we were infants. As far as I know, there wasn't a huge increase in juvenile diabetes while I was growing up.