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All good news for breastfeeding
Tuesday 23 June, 2009
Story by Gina Fink (press release for Queensland Health): While the message that breastfeeding helps infants get the best start in life has been around for generations, clinical evidence on the many health benefits of breastfeeding is strong and continues to accumulate. more
Man fights cancer with breast milk
Times of India ,13 Jun 2009:Breakfast is quite unusual for Tim Browne. When the retired teacher and musician from Wiltshire, England, sits down to a bowl of corn flakes in the morning, he slurps up one unusual, and controversial, extra ingredient: his daughter's breast milk. more
Exercising in pregnancy boosts baby's IQ
Burning While Expecting And 9 Months of Breastfeeding Make A Clever Child, Say Experts
In a new book, ‘Intelligence and How To Get It’, Nisbett highlights the important part the mother plays in shaping her children’s ability to learn and reason, starting shortly after conception. “Children whose mother exercised 30 minutes a day score around eight points higher on standard IQ tests than children whose mothers were more sedentary,” he said last week. “breastfeeding for up to nine months may increase IQ by as much as six points.” more
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Why bottle-fed babies grow faster London, Apr 26 : Breast milk has less protein than formula, a new study has claimed.
It has been believed that formula-fed babies, who tend to be bigger, are "programmed" to store fat and so have a higher risk of childhood obesity.more |
Breastfeeding lowers risk of heart attack, stroke: Researchers
22 Apr 2009, 0400 hrs IST, Kounteya Sinha, TNN
NEW DELHI: Here's an eye opener for the 60% women in the country who fail to exclusively breastfeed their new borns for six months. Women who breastfeed their babies for a year actually end up lowering their own risk of a heart attack or stroke.
Adding to the growing body of evidence suggesting breastfeeding benefits for both the mother and baby, scientists have now found that women who breastfeed for more than a year are 10% less likely to develop heart conditions than those who did not. Breastfeeding was also found to reduce the risk of high blood pressure by 12% and diabetes and high cholesterol by around 20%.
The findings were announced in the journal `Obstetrics and Gynaecology' on Tuesday. . more
Screw turns on Fonterra to come clean
By DEIDRE MUSSEN - Sunday Star Times | Sunday,
01 February 2009
Calls are mounting for Fonterra to release documents at the centre
of the melamine baby milk scandal in China, with a New Zealand
legal expert rubbishing the dairy giant's claims it could not
release the information for legal reasons. more
Fonterra denies advocating
melamine use in milk scandal
By New Zealand correspondent Kerri Ritchie
New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra has denied claims that it approved
the use of the toxic chemical melamine in baby milk formula produced
in China. more
Health
Professional Advisory - Enterobacter sakazakii Infection and Powdered
Infant Formulas :Background:On
April 9, 2002, the United States Food and Drug Administration
(USFDA) issued an alert to US Health Care Professionals regarding
the risk associated with Enterobacter sakazakii infections among
neonates fed milk-based, powdered infant formulas.more
Editorial: Another black
eye for U.S. food safety
Investment needed to improve nation's disease surveillance.
Last update: January 31, 2009 - 8:08 PM
Melamine-tainted milk and pet foods were a worldwide scandal recently,
permanently tarnishing China's reputation as a global food producer.
Now the United States finds itself in a similar position.
China toxic milk victim count expected to rise
BEIJING (Reuters) - The number of Chinese infants found threatened
by toxic milk powder is likely to rise as the search for victims
spreads, state media reported on Tuesday, as the government faced
growing public anger over the safety crisis.More than 1,200 children
have been diagnosed with kidney illness after drinking adulterated
milk powder produced by the Sanlu Group..more
China takes blame in milk scandal
BBC, Saturday, 18 October 2008 09:04 Chinese Premier
Wen Jiabao has said the government is partly responsible for the
tainted milk scandal which has left thousands of children sick.
In a rare interview with Science magazine, Mr Wen said the government
felt "great sorrow" about the crisis, which also killed
four children. He said while the problems were with a private
company, the government had not properly supervised the dairy
industry. Milk powder was contaminated with the industrial chemical,
melamine. Suppliers are believed to have added the banned chemical,
normally used in plastics, to watered-down milk in order to make
it appear higher in protein. About 53,000 children became ill.
Most of the victims were under two-years-old. more
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