Just after smacking her in the gob, I decided to read what Caroline Hunt had written about this whole "ban formula milk adverts to encourage breast feeding" thing. Personally I think it's absurd that organisations would call for greater legislation in order to enforce the "received wisdom" on breast feeding.
After all, "received wisdom" is all it is. A few years ago it was all about formula, now they've changed their mind again. Just like you should lay a baby on it's back, and few years before it was on its front, and before that it was on its back.
The same is true for almost every health scare going out there. Too much salt causes one thing but protects against another. Caffiene apparently now protects against alzeimers, but only in women. Received wisdom is a wonderful thing, but it shouldn't be legislated for otherwise you'll just have to repeal things later.
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Regardless of the 'received wisdom' bit (and yes, it is tedious trying to follow ever-changing advice), the thing that annoys me is these 'experts' never stop to think that maybe it is free choice that stops the whatever% from breastfeeding as per govt advice.
But no, we can't have that! It must be down to those evil corporations...
Sun tan is healthy again now!
It is the banners who are dangerous.
Although this may be the thin end of the wedge.
Advertising all togather was frowned on in mother Russia.
And that is the yern home of all such people.
Sometimes I think that the only way to improve such outbreaks of "scientificly proven" health wisdom is to go around the research labs of the country beating everyone with a cricket bat while screaming:
"Statistical Significance!",
"Population Size!" and
"Control Groups!"
Or some concise phrase that correlation does not imply explicit cause and effect.
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