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Born Free baby bottles win "Best New infant health Product" award at Natural Products Expo West 2007 Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Switching to a BPA-free baby bottle is extremely important for protecting infant health. Improved air flow These bottles from New Born Free feature other infant health features as well, including a unique air flow design that reportedly reduces the need to burp your baby after feeding from the bottle. The flow also reduces pressure differences inside the bottle, which, we were told, can help reduce ear infections in infants (because air pressure differences can push bacteria right into the ear canal through an infant's eustachian tubes).

Infant health reminders While you're at it, remember these important points about infant health: Breastfeeding is the single most important thing you can do to enhance your baby's nutritional health. Don't slather your children with personal care products made with industrial chemicals. Most sunscreen products, for example, are loaded with toxic chemicals that actually cause liver cancer and skin disorders. (A little sun is healthy for babies anyway. Vitamin D is essential for healthy bones and normal cell division.

Best New infant health Product" award from Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, following the Natural Products Expo West 2007 trade show in Anaheim, California. In this review, the Health Ranger offers a brief review of the Born Free company and its unique BPA-free baby bottle products. Awareness about the health dangers of bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical in many plastics, has been growing among consumers. BPA is a known estrogen mimicker, and can cause hormone-disrupting effects, toxicity, neurotoxicity, low sperm counts and even cancer.

Improved air flow These bottles from New Born Free feature other infant health features as well, including a unique air flow design that reportedly reduces the need to burp your baby after feeding from the bottle. The flow also reduces pressure differences inside the bottle, which, we were told, can help reduce ear infections in infants (because air pressure differences can push bacteria right into the ear canal through an infant's eustachian tubes). We weren't able to test this feature, so you'll have to test it yourself to see how well it works.

As a long-time supporter of infant health and prenatal nutrition, I know the value of preventing disease at an early age rather than poisoning everybody with chemicals and waiting for diseases to develop later in life. Bisphenol A is such a dangerous chemical that I have no doubt it will one day be banned from all food and beverage products (California is already trying to enact a ban on the chemical in children's products). But why wait for the legislators to get around to it? You can protect your baby's health today by buying BPA-free baby bottles from the Born Free company. Five stars.

Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease Dr. Sharon Moalem See book keywords and concepts

Of course, we've long understood the basic idea that good nutrition in an expectant mother is important for infant health. And we've also known that the connection goes beyond the obvious— sufficient nutrition, healthy birth weight, and so forth—to reduce the likelihood of certain diseases later in life. But until the Duke study, the "how" was very unclear. As Dr. Randy Jirtle, one of the leaders of the study, said: We have long known that maternal nutrition profoundly impacts disease susceptibility in their offspring, but we never understood the cause-and-effect link.

Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods Jeffrey M. Smith See book keywords and concepts

Not only will nutritional imbalances and metabolic disturbances affect infant health, they can even influence gene expression "and may even be transmitted to the next generation."5 This concept was illustrated by a remarkable study, featured on the cover of a 2003 issue of Molecular and Cellular Biology. "Scientists showed they could change the coat color of baby mice simply by feeding their mothers four common nutritional supplements before and during pregnancy and lactation.

Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power Mark Schapiro See book keywords and concepts

The primary challenge to Swan's work on that site is contained in a letter to Environmental Health Perspectives from the heads of the cosmetic-industry trade associations in the United States and Europe, and a report by the National Institutes of Health questioning whether her use of AGD as a marker for infant health was too new to the field of studying sexual development to be scientifically significant.

Ultraprevention : The 6-Week Plan That Will Make You Healthy for Life Mark Hyman, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Modern advances in maternal and infant health, nutrition, immunizations, hygiene, and the treatment of infectious diseases have dramatically improved human life in the past century. We are now entering an age in which we are able to envision medicine not simply as a remedy for ailments, but as a tool to realize our true human potential. Instead of viewing medicine as a system to diagnose and treat conditions, we are achieving the luxury of using medicine to allow us all to live our lives to their very fullest.

Dr. Cass Ingram's Lifesaving Cures Dr. Cass Ingram See book keywords and concepts

Using fear tactics instead of science, today's physicians prohibit the consumption of a totally natural food, which could only aid infant health. There is no increased risk for illness or botulism in infants who are fed raw honey. It is harmless. Rather, the consumption of this natural antiseptic food protects infants from such diseases. The fact is when this substance is placed on wounds infected by the botulism organism, it sterilizes them. Raw honey has been consumed by the primitives and their children for thousands of years. It never has and never will cause botulism.

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