Mother's Milk Watered Down by Formula Industry

I think breastfeeding is one of the most rewarding, important, and wonderful things that happens between a mother and her child. Here's a dismaying article reported in the Washington Post about how the politically powerful formula industry toned down some intense and provocative ads produced by the Health and Human Services Department to increase historically low breastfeeding rates in the U.S.

While these ads were blunt and used scare tactics like showing an insulin syringe or an asthma inhaler with a nipple, the facts are that breastfed children suffer significantly lower rates of conditions like type 1 diabetes and asthma. But with $8 Billion in worldwide annual sales, those formula makers have some clout and they know how to use it.

-Brenda