Winter 2001 Newsletter Contents

• Breastmilk Nutrition Linked To Lower Blood Pressure In later Life
• A Randomized trial in the Republic of Belarus
• Open letter to the Ontario Nurses Association
• Saskatchewan Breastfeeding Committee alerts to Heinz promos
• Baby Friendly Initiative in the Community
• Breastfeeding Benefits Outweigh Risk of HIV Transmission in Africa
• Nancy-Jo Peck
• Brreastmilk Attacks
• Meanwhile in Calgary...
• Nestlegate
• Author John le Carre enraged by "dark underside" of pharmaceuticals
• Sound Familiar??
• More evidence that breastfeeding reduces breastcancer risk
• Infant Feeding in Emergencies
• How to use new Fact Sheets
• Breastfeeding and the Working Woman: Maternity Benefits
• The ILO Convention 2000
• Who needs the makeover?
• Moms for Milk
• Abstracts
• World Breastfeeding Week 2001 Resource Center

Erratum

Breastfeeding benefits high risk population in Saskatchewan, appearing in the Summer/Fall 2000 Newsletter. The last two sentences should read:

The 6 month audit shows that at the time of readmission only 3.6 per cent were breastfeeding and nearly 80 per cent were being artifically fed. Close to seventeen per cent were partially breastfeeding when readmitted.