Being pregnant is what ultimately impacts the figure. Breastfeeding mothers actually tend to lose weight more rapidly and efficiently. Indeed, it is because of this fact that breastfeeding can be more easily promoted to our “figure conscious” women here in the States.

Clearly marketers of formula and baby food have found an angle that they can use to erode the traditional breastfeeding practices of these Asian women.

Ironically, these same women with svelte figures forget that they were most likely breastfed themselves. They do not realize that they will be setting up their children for many health challenges associated with not breastfeeding and substituting formula and other baby foods during the critical first year of development. Obesity and juvenile diabetes immediately come to mind.

And, given the tragic Chinese formula debacle of a few months back, they might not have to wait very long to see the results of abandoning breastfeeding. Commercial products carry many risks known and yet to be discovered.