MY first instinct on reading Prof Sven Carlsen’s recently-published ‘research’, which absurdly concludes that formula milk is as good as breast milk, was to find out who paid for the research.

CALL it a mother’s intuition if you like, but we should not throw the baby out with the bathwater after reading about Prof Sven Carlsen’s recently-published research which shockingly claims baby formula is as good as breastmilk for a child’s health.