Gabriel Cousens
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 The second is a report on microwaved baby formula, from The Lancet of December 9, 1989:
Microwaving baby formulas converted certain trans-amino acids into their synthetic cis-isomers. Synthetic isomers, whether cis-amino acids or trans-fatty acids, are not biologically active. Further, one of the amino acids, L-proline, was converted to its d-isomer, which is known to be neurotoxic (poisonous to the nervous system) and nephrotoxic (poisonous to the kidneys). It's bad enough that many babies are not nursed, but now they are given fake milk (baby formula) made even more toxic via microwaving. |
Michael Pollan
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 Of course the operative nutritionist assumption here is that we know enough to determine nutritional equivalence—something that the checkered history of baby formula suggests has never been the case.
Nutritionism had become the official ideology of the Food and Drug Administration; for all practical purposes the government had redefined foods as nothing more than the sum of their recognized nutrients. Adulteration had been repositioned as food science. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 The food industry currently supplements everything from flour to breakfast cereal to baby formula with iron.
You know what they say about too much of a good thing?
Our relationship with iron is much more complex than it's been considered traditionally. It's essential—but it also provides a proverbial leg up to just about every biological threat to our lives. With very few exceptions in the form of a few bacteria that use other metals in its place, almost all life on earth needs iron to survive.
Parasites hunt us for our iron; cancer cells thrive on our iron. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Buy Similac (or any other baby formula powder). It's made with 42.6% corn syrup solids and 10.1% sugar, making it over 50% refined sugars! Marketed with a cuddly teddy bear on the front label and sporting the claim, "Balanced nutrition for older babies," Similac and other infant formula products are little more than sugar water for babies. Doctors and pediatricians remain silent. There is no outcry. No national scandal. No action by the FDA to protect babies. Some doctors even recommend this stuff! (And stupid parents keep buying it! |
Michael Pollan
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| The entire history of baby formula has been the history of one overlooked nutrient after another: Liebig missed the vitamins and amino acids, and his successors missed the omega-3s, and still to this day babies fed on the most "nutritionally complete" formula fail to do as well as babies fed human milk. Even more than margarine, infant formula stands as the ultimate test product of nutritionism and a fair index of its hubris.
This brings us to one of the most troubling features of nutritionism, though it is a feature certainly not troubling to all. |
| Having cracked the mystery of human nutrition, Liebig went on to develop a meat extract—Liebig's Extractum Car-nis—that has come down to us as bouillon and concocted the first baby formula, consisting of cow's milk, wheat flour, malted flour, and potassium bicarbonate.
Liebig, the father of modern nutritional science, had driven food into a corner and forced it to yield its chemical secrets. But the post-Liebig consensus that science now pretty much knew what was going on in food didn't last long. |
Andreas Moritz
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 But most people's doshas were thrown off balance with their first taste of manufactured baby formula and whatever manmade foods became their source of nourishment after that. Once a dosha is out of balance in your body, you tend to yearn for exactly those kinds of foods that maintain that imbalance. When the body is congested, the natural urges and signals of the body are also subdued, and cravings result. For example, an unbalanced Pitta type may crave spicy, sour and salty foods, and an unbalanced Kapha type chooses to eat cake, candy and oily foods. |
| Thankfully, the American Dental Association, which has for many years been one of fluoride's biggest advocates, changed course when it alerted its members in 2006 that parents of infants younger than a year old "should consider using water that has no or low levels of fluoride" when mixing baby formula.
If the naturally occurring fluoride in green tea were even remotely toxic (like the fluoride added to drinking water), it would not have shown to have such a wide range of preventive and curative effects. |
| Infants may suffer brain damage when fed with soy-based baby formula. Soy is rich in phytates, which inhibit the absorption of zinc. Zinc is essential for proper brain development.
• Vitamin deficiency diseases such as rickets are on the rise again. This bone-deforming disease nearly disappeared in Britain until huge advertising campaigns led to steep increases in the consumption of dairy products and meat.
• The intake of "anti-nutrients" such as dietary fiber is greatly increasing the risk of iron deficiency anemia. |
Gabriel Cousens
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| They encouraged the mothers to breastfeed, and when weaning their babies, the mothers used a specifically modified baby formula in which the dairy proteins were broken up into individual amino acids. The other families were allowed to use regular cow's milk. The children who were fed the specific formula were much less likely to develop the anti-beta cell antibodies; their risk was cut by 62 percent.78 In 2002, in a study involving families in fifteen countries, researchers found that large proteins can pass through the Peyer's patches in the small intestine and into the system, even in adults. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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 Numerous patients and friends have told me their pediatricians tell them to add fluoride pills to baby formula, and to start their children on fluoride treatments as soon as they are old enough. These experts have even encouraged adding fluoride to Pedialyte, an electrolyte fluid mixture primarily used for sick babies. This is unconscionable! These pediatricians are taking the word of the American Dental Association, which as we have seen, has a vested interest in promoting the use of a toxic product. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 Parents who microwave baby formula are poisoning their children unknowingly. The baby formula itself is poison; by microwaving it, it becomes even more toxic. For more information read my newsletter article in the back of the book.
9. Eliminate aspartame and monosodium glutamate.
Aspartame goes by NutraSweet®. Both aspartame and MSG are classified as excitotoxins. There are three great books on this subject. Aspartame, Is it Safe? was written by a medical doctor. |
Neal D. Barnard and Bryanna Clark Grogan
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 When mothers were ready to wean their infants, the researchers asked half to use a specially modified baby formula in which dairy proteins were broken up into individual amino acids—protein building blocks that are too small to elicit an immune reaction. The other families were allowed to use a regular cow's milk formula. The research aimed to see whether avoiding exposure to intact cow's milk proteins could reduce the likelihood of developing diabetes. |
Kevin Trudeau
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| Parents who microwave baby formula are poisoning their children unknowingly. The baby formula itself is poison; by microwaving it, it becomes even more toxic. For more information read my newsletter article in the back of the book.
9. Eliminate aspartame and monosodium glutamate.
Aspartame goes by NutraSweet®. Both aspartame and MSG are classified as excitotoxins. There are three great books on this subject. Aspartame, Is it Safe? was written by a medical doctor. |
Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN
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 Department of Preventive Dentistry at the University of Toronto and president of the Canadian Association for Dental Research, goes a step further, warning that "Children under three should never use fluoridated toothpaste or drink fluoridated water. And baby formula must never be made up using Toronto (fluoridated) tap water. Never." Once Canada's most prominent fluoride promoter, Dr. Limeback reversed his position in 1999, publicly apologized to patients, and acknowledged the soundness of toxicology studies going back more than 50 years. |
| As SPI does not have GRAS status, manufacturers must by law attain "Pre-Market Approval" before adding SPI to any food item, yet SPI is now routinely added to food products, including baby formula, without safety checks or prior approval.
In October 1999, the FDA approved a health claim for soy protein at the amount of 25 grams, an action the SCOGS committee would have found inconceivable. The committee considered a mere 150 mg per day of soy protein to be the maximum safe dose. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 If that is not possible, choose a nondairy baby formula, such as a soy-based product.
Considerations
Q There are several tests used to measure the absorption of lactose into the digestive system. The first test is known as the lactose tolerance test, in which the person drinks a liquid containing lactose after fasting overnight. Approximately one-half hour later, the amount of glucose (blood sugar) in the blood is measured and the presence of symptoms assessed. |
Greg Critser
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 In the early 1900s, it began manufacturing dried milk, eventually emerging as the United Kingdom's principal purveyor of baby formula, food, and vitamins. After WWII, the firm got into pharmaceuticals. Some of its hits were Bi2 for pernicious anemia, streptomycin for TB treatment, and albuterol for asthma. It was, by the late 1970s, a middling, predictable player — one that its president, an intense, enterprising man named Paul Girolamo, believed was ready to jump to the next rung of competition.
The reason for Girolamo's optimism was a new Glaxo drug called ranitidine, or Zantac. |
Healing Children's Attention & Behavior DisordersDr. Abram Hoffer, M.D., FRCP(C)
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| Further, the scientific literature reports that newborn infants immediately exposed to cows' milk or soy based baby formula have a significant chance of neuronal damage. In addition, adults exposed to high levels of ambient manganese, especially with a low nutritional status, have a propensity for aberrant/violent behavior. |
Kevin Trudeau
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| Medical doctors touted that baby formula was much better than breast milk for children. Now the exact opposite is shown to be true.
• Milk was recommended for coating the stomach and alleviating stomach ulcers. Now it is discouraged and has been found to aggravate ulcers.
• Medical science stated that diet had absolutely no effect on disease or illness. Now we are told that diet has a huge effect on the prevention and cause of disease.
• Medical science once had scientific evidence that the removing of tonsils and appendix improved health and should be done to virtually everyone. |
Bruce Fife and Jon J. Kabara
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 Recognizing the superiority of nature, scientists have attempted to make baby formula match mother's milk as closely as possible.
An important component of breast milk is medium-chain fatty acids, principally lauric acid. Lauric acid is also the primary saturated fatty acid found in coconut oil. Apparently nature thought it essential to the baby's health to include it. Nature has a reason for everything it does. It doesn't do things, such as putting MCFA in milk, just for the fun of it. |
| Why don't we hear about the use of coconut oil in hospitals, baby formula, and elsewhere? If it's good for the sick and the very young, why wouldn't it be good for us as well? Why would the government include it on its list of safe foods if it was dangerous or unhealthy? Why aren't the studies on coconut oil better publicized? Why have we been misled...or have we? Perhaps coconut oil is bad and hospital patients and parents of formula-fed babies are being deceived. These and many more questions filled my mind. I had to find the answers. |
| OSTEOPOROSIS
One of the advantages of using MCFA in baby formula is that they help with the absorption of other nutrients. The absorption of calcium and magnesium and also amino acids has been found to increase when infants are fed a diet containing coconut oil.5'6 Coconut oil has been used for the purpose of enhancing absorption and retention of calcium and magnesium in people when a deficiency of these minerals exists. This is one of the reasons why hospitals give premature and sick infants formulas containing MCFA. |
| I learned that for several decades it has been used in hospital formulas to feed critically ill patients and that it is a major component of baby formula because it provides many of the same nutrients as human breast milk. Questions were raised: if it was as deadly as we are led to believe, why would they use it to nourish sick patients and feed infants? Would you give an unhealthy food to your new-born baby? It didn't make sense. I learned that coconut oil could be used to treat a number of common illnesses and is considered by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to be a safe, natural food. |
Katharine Greider
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 Likewise, breastfeeding advocates were disturbed to find the logo of a major producer of baby formula on the cover of the American Academy of Pediatrics' New Mother's Guide to Breastfeeding. Still others expressed doubts about the appropriateness of a new drug-ad vehicle called the Patient Channel, which would wrap the ads around educational segments about particular conditions and send them into hospital rooms, where patients lay convalescing. |
Bruce Fife and Jon J. Kabara
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| MCFA from coconut oil have been added to baby formula for decades.
Why do they use it? Because the MCFA in coconut oil are easily digested, absorbed, and put to use nourishing the body. Unlike other fats, they put little strain on the digestive system and provide a quick source of energy necessary to promote healing. This is important for patients who are using every ounce of strength they have to overcome serious illness or injury. It's no wonder why MCFA are added to infant formulas. Actually, whether you were breast or formula fed as an infant you consumed MCFA. Why? |
Neal Barnard, M.D.
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 A switch to breast-feeding, if possible, or soy-based baby formula, usually solves the problem.
Surprisingly enough, breast milk can cause colic, too, depending on what the mother has been eating. For example, if a woman consumes dairy products, some of the cow's milk proteins will pass from her digestive tract into her bloodstream, then into her breast milk. Not so long ago, doctors believed that proteins were completely broken down in the digestive tract, and that it would be impossible for animal proteins to end up in a woman's breast milk. |
Arthur C. Upton, M.D.
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| Use cold water, especially when preparing baby formula.
• Do not drink the first water that comes out of your tap in the morning. Lead concentrations are highest in water that has sat in pipes for several hours. When you use the tap for the first time, let the water run for two to five minutes or until it is as cold as possible. Flush the toilet or run the shower to help rid the piping system of stagnant water.
• Let the water run for a few seconds before drinking when you use the tap during the day. consumers to take a few simple measures described in Box 13. |
Cynthia A. Foster, M.D.
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 I don't think anyone will ever be able to design a baby formula with the proper proportion of nutrients, antibodies and other components needed for the proper growth and functioning. Scientists are constantly finding new nutrients, vitamins, and antibodies in breast milk that they didn't know existed before. There is no good substitute for breast milk.
Many mothers had been told they could not breastfeed because they were taking a medication that would pass through the breast milk and be toxic to the baby. |
Dian Dincin Buchman, Ph.D.
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 If you think that there are lead or lead alloy pipes in your house, never make baby formula or a child's meal or drink with standing water. Always run it for a few minutes. Don't ever use hot tap water for drinking or preparing children's food. Hot water leaches out the lead faster than cold water.
Yet despite these scary-sounding implications, water treatment, including chlorine and fluoride, remains a necessary precaution against water-borne parasites and disease. Water treatment this past century has helped to eliminate, among other diseases, typhoid and cholera. |
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