Hey, ya'll...don't remember where we were talking about this, so I just decided to post a new thread. I found an article on ABC news.com about the new formula (short article) and here is an excerpt:
Mead Johnson Pharmaceuticals is now marketing a new line of formula in the United States called Enfamil Lipil that contains two fatty acids-decosahexaenoic acid, or DHA, and arachidonic acid, or ARA-that are naturally occurring elements of breast milk and are believed to play an important role in the development of the brain and the eye.
"What the formula companies are trying to do is get more and more like breast milk, because they realize that it is the gold standard," says Dr. Steven Zeisel, chairman of the department of nutrition at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. "There is no advantage of this formula over breast milk, but there might be an advantage over other formulas."
