Breastfeeding news, articles and information:
 | 11/22/2011 - Natural News readers are likely already aware that fish is considered "brain food" and affects cognitive function. However, until this time, little was known about the interaction between genetics and nutrition. During a recent conference held in Madrid, Spain, the European Commission-funded Nutrimenthe...
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 | 8/15/2011 - Breastfeeding has long been known to be one of the most important ways mothers can protect the health of their baby. According to the American College of Pediatrics, breastfeeding slashes the rate of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) during the first year of life and it also reduces the risk of type...
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 | 8/14/2011 - Mothers who breastfeed their babies in public are probably used to frequent stares and occasional negative comments about keeping such affairs in private. However, Big Latch On, an international group started in 2005 to promote breastfeeding, is hoping to change the cultural stigmas that look down on...
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| 6/17/2011 - The sobering statistic is that every day approximately seven babies die of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). Recent research suggests the simple act of breastfeeding may significantly reduce the risk of this disease and the reduction may be particularly dramatic if the breastfeeding is exclusive...
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| 4/27/2011 - Women who breastfeed their children for the first month of life or more may have a decreased risk for diabetes mellitus (type 2 diabetes), according to a study led by Eleanor Bimla Schwarz at the University of Pittsburgh's Department of Medicine.
This news is just another reason for women to consider...
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| 4/18/2011 - When a new mother is eating a balanced diet and providing her body with the proper nutrients, breastfeeding is always the preferred method of nourishment for a baby. Not only does breastfeeding promote bonding between mom and baby, but breast milk also provides babies with immunity from nutrients, enzymes...
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| 2/12/2011 - The longer a mother breastfeeds her baby, the less likely the child is to have seizures later in life, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Pediatrics. Danish researchers observed that babies who are breastfed for at least the first nine months are nearly half as likely to experience...
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| 2/12/2011 - Over the past twenty years a lot has changed and we are seeing the results in each (sicker) generation of children. I am always amazed to find out how certain shifts in our environment and culture affect our health. Small changes go long way when significant percentages of the population take part,...
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| 1/29/2011 - Once more we discover the incredible value of breastfeeding for the health of infants. In a study published in the Archives of Disease of Childhood, researchers found that exclusive breastfeeding for six months resulted in less infections of many types compared to babies who did not breastfeed or babies...
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| 1/15/2011 - Infant formula companies regularly promote their products in violation international standards adopted to protect infant health, an article on AllAfrica.com charges.
So widely accepted are the benefits of breastfeeding that in 1981, the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's...
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| 1/8/2011 - A new study published in the Journal of Nutrition adds more evidence to the fact that breastfed babies end up healthier and more vibrant than babies that are not breastfed. Enrique Garcia Artero and his colleagues from the University of Granada determined that breastfeeding leads to increased muscle...
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| 12/29/2010 - Babies who are exclusively breastfed for the first six months of life contract significantly fewer infections than babies fed from bottles, and get less sick even when they do get infected, according to a study published in the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood.
"This research is very welcome...
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| 12/7/2010 - It seems obvious that babies who sleep with their parents are likely to breastfeed more than babies who sleep in a separate room. They will probably nurse more often and nurse for a longer duration of their lives. A study published in the November 2010 issue of Pediatrics, the journal of the American...
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| 11/15/2010 - Breastmilk is the best form of nutrition for a baby but many women struggle to breastfeed and have problems in the early days after birth: including difficulties with latch, problems with milk supply or baby being sleepy. Many of these problems can be caused by birth interventions which can decrease...
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| 10/24/2010 - Population estimates state that the world population will reach 9 billion in the next century and biotech companies say that GM crops are required to feed the population. Statistics however would show that it is the move away from natural processes of living which has caused the population crisis. Breastfeeding...
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| 9/30/2010 - Researchers in Greece are urging mothers to exclusively breastfeed their babies for at least the first six months of their lives, based on new research findings. According to the study, babies who are exclusively breastfed for the first six months experience fewer infections than those who are either...
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| 7/31/2010 - "Breastfeeding should continue for up to two years of age or beyond," the World Health Organization recommends -- yet in many countries such as the United Kingdom or United States, breastfeeding a child past the age of a few months is still considered odd or deviant, even by some doctors.
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| 4/24/2010 - Women who breastfeed their children longer are significantly less likely to develop the cluster of heart disease and diabetes risk factors known as metabolic syndrome, according to a study conducted by researchers from Kaiser Permanente Northern California and published in the journal Diabetes.
"The...
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| 3/30/2010 - Women who breastfeed their infants have a significantly lower risk of breast cancer, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
In addition to providing significant advantages to the infants themselves,...
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| 3/18/2010 - "Pregnancy brain" is a condition whereby expectant mothers experience short term memory loss and forgetfulness that often persists into the postpartum and breastfeeding period. Given widespread fatty acid deficiency in the Standard American Diet (SAD), along with the fact that the brain is built on...
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| 2/24/2010 - Providing breastfeeding education and support to new mothers could prevent more than one million child deaths every year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Although the WHO recommends that infants start breastfeeding within one hour of birth and consume nothing but breast milk --...
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| 1/24/2010 - Drugs commonly given during hospital labor may impair a woman's ability to breastfeed, according to a study conducted by researchers from Swansea University and published in the journal BJOG.
"A lot of women are not given enough information about the medications that might be given to them during...
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| 1/8/2010 - A recent study lauding the benefits of fortified infant formula has been greeted with skepticism by child development specialists, who suspect that the study is only the first part of an attempt to promote formula over breast milk.
"It is clear that the food industry fascination with nutraceuticals...
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| 12/16/2009 - Armed with the correct knowledge, breastfeeding should be a pleasure for both mother and baby and will certainly give the infant a head start in life. No matter how attractively infant formula is packaged and marketed, nothing manufactured by man is going to come anywhere close to the immune building,...
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| 11/7/2009 - It is commonplace among modern mothers to begin introducing solid food to their babies as early as 4 months of age, yet babies in more primitive societies were mostly exclusively breastfed until 2 years of age. Given the archeological studies, babies` immature and developing digestive enzyme production,...
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| 9/24/2009 - What if medical science discovered a drug that reduced the risk of breast cancer almost 60 percent in women who are at high risk because of a family history of the disease? No doubt it would soon be making Big Pharma billions of dollars and would be hailed as a "miracle drug" by doctors and women alike,...
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| 8/5/2009 - According to the World Health Organization, breastfeeding babies exclusively for the first six months can save the lives of 13 percent of infants that die under five. Breast milk is what nature intended for infants to be eating, and eating in ways in accordance with nature is always to our benefit....
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| 8/1/2009 - This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni's Rawkathon, which can be found at http://www.Rawkathon.com. In this excerpt, Kevin gets personal; Matt Monarch shares on his reading and raising kids raw.
Rawkathon with Matt Monarch. Matt Monarch has been living a raw food lifestyle for nine years...
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| 7/1/2009 - Breastfeeding has long been known to be an important way mothers can help keep infants healthy. For example, according to the American College of Pediatrics, breastfeeding slashes the rate of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) during the first year of life (http://www.naturalnews.com/026239_SIDS_breastfeeding_natural_health.html)...
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| 5/10/2009 - Babies who are breastfed for at least six months are significantly less likely to die from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) than those who are formula fed, according to a study conducted by researchers from the German Study of Sudden Infant Death Study Group and the University of Munster, Germany,...
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| 5/1/2009 - Studies show that breastfeeding decreases the risk of breast cancer, heart disease, stroke and diabetes.
The biggest and most extensive study of its kind done by scientists from Cancer Research UK found that the longer mothers breastfeed, the more they reduce the risk of disease. This means that...
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| 4/24/2009 - Breastfeeding has long been known to be good for mother and baby. La Leche League International lists many benefits, including that breast-milk is easy for the baby to digest, and has natural antibodies protecting the baby against bacteria and viruses. Now a new study by the University of Pittsburgh...
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| 3/28/2009 - SIDS is the sudden unexplained death of an infant and is the number one cause of death in U.S babies less than one year old. Fortunately the SIDS rate has dropped over 50% since 1983, but it is still responsible for 2500 deaths each year according to the American SIDS Institute. There are many hypotheses...
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 | 10/26/2008 - The majority of hospitals and birth centers in the United States have practices that make it less likely that mothers will breastfeed, according to a study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
In the first-ever nationwide review of breastfeeding promotion practices in...
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 | 10/20/2008 - Women can cut their risk of rheumatoid arthritis by 50 percent simply by breastfeeding for a year or longer, according to a study conducted by researchers from Malmo University Hospital in Sweden, and published in the "Annals of Rheumatic Diseases."
Scientists have wondered whether breastfeeding...
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 | 10/13/2008 - Children who are breastfed exclusively for the first three months of life score higher on IQ tests at the age of six than other children, according to a study conducted by researchers from McGill University in Canada and published in the Archives of General Psychiatry.
"Long-term, exclusive breastfeeding...
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 | 9/2/2008 - New guidelines have been released that now recommend that mothers should breastfeed their babies for the first six months without adding any additional solid foods or formula. Experts from the World Health Organization support these new guidelines and this replaces previous guidelines that recommended...
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 | 5/9/2008 - Babies who are breastfed have higher IQs than babies who are not -- but only if they contain a specific genetic marker, according to a study led by researchers at the King's College London Institute of Psychiatry and published in the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA."
Researchers...
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 | 12/15/2007 - (NaturalNews Satire) With mandatory vaccines suddenly being forced onto parents by doctors and so-called "health authorities" in places like Maryland, New Jersey and Texas, you might think that doctors being full of bunk is a new phenomenon. But no, it's nothing new. Doctors have been full of bunk for...
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 | 10/24/2007 - Women can reduce their risk of breast cancer by breast-feeding, even if they have their first child later in life, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research in Los Angeles.
Researchers analyzed data on women who had participated in the Women's...
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 | 2/22/2007 - Breast-fed babies have a stronger ability to go up the social ladder than those given cow's milk, a new study says, and the longer a baby is breast-fed, the better chances it will have to succeed.
The study drew on the success and failures of 1,414 U.K. babies born in the 1920s and 1930s, a population...
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 | 2/19/2007 - Babies who are breast-fed have significantly better vision as young children than babies fed from formula, according to a study published in the January issue of American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
Researchers in the United Kingdom followed 262 children from birth until four to six years of age....
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 | 1/31/2007 - The human body is able to absorb dangerous pollutants from household dust, according to an international study led by Boston University's School of Public Health.
Researchers found a statistically significant correlation between the levels of polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) flame retardants...
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| 12/11/2006 - Women who have epidurals to relieve the pain associated with giving birth may have difficulty breastfeeding, according to a new Australian study.
Researchers from the University of Sydney examined 1,300 women who gave birth in 1997 and found that, of the 93 percent who breastfed their babies in the...
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| 11/21/2006 - Breastfed babies may run a 39 percent lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes later in life, according to a new study by University of London researchers appearing in the latest issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
The researchers -- led by Christopher G. Owen, PhD. -- examined the...
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| 10/30/2006 - New Australian research has found that infants who are breastfed for longer than six months experience significantly better mental health during childhood, compared to infants breastfed for fewer than six months.
Researchers from the University of Western Australia tracked and examined the growth...
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| 8/3/2006 - Scientists at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden report that breastfed babies may be better able to deal with stress later in life than bottle-fed babies.
While the researchers report they do not believe breastfeeding itself translates into better stress-management habits, they theorize the bond...
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| 7/10/2006 - A study in the July issue of Pediatrics shows that premature babies who were fed breast milk while in the hospital performed better on mental development tests later in life than premature babies who were fed only formula.
Researchers tracked around 1,000 extremely low birth weight infants born...
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 | 4/5/2006 - Over the years, countless studies have shown that when it comes to infant nutrition, breast milk is best. This fact remains true, as there is simply no infant formula product on the market that can match the superior nutrition of mother's milk. In fact, some infant formulas actually contain ingredients...
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 | 12/5/2004 - The following is part three of an interview with Robert Cohen, author of "Milk, the Deadly Poison," and www.Notmilk.com
Mike Adams: What is it that drove you to have this kind of interest and energy to pursue the truth about milk and dairy products?
Robert Cohen: Three little girls named Jennifer,...
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