[pronut-hiv] Infant Formula Study Just a Marketing Gimmick to Push Formula Over Breastfeeding

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Infant Formula Study Just a Marketing Gimmick to Push Formula Over
Breastfeeding 

http://www.naturalnews.com/027895_infant_formula_brstfeeding.html

NaturalNews) A recent study lauding the benefits of fortified infant
formula has been greeted with skepticism by child development
specialists, who suspect that the study is only the first part of an
attempt to promote formula over breast milk.

"It is clear that the food industry fascination with nutraceuticals
(strategically fortified food products) is now spreading into infant
formula," said Barbara Moore of Shape Up America! "This is a disturbing
new development. We have parents thinking that sticking their tiny
infants in front of a Baby Einstein video will improve their child's
mental development when the data suggest that parent-child interactions
(and plenty of them) are the most critical factor for such development.
Now parents will be encouraged to forego breastfeeding -- which is
optimal for both mothers and babies -- in favor of a hyped up infant
formula."