Infants Articles

Infants Articles:

Doctors Over-prescribe Reflux Meds to Infants 80% of the Time

The IQ of doctors needs to be measured. Are they really this stupid, or are they just puppets of Big Pharma? A new study has found that doctors are handing out acid suppressing medication to children far in excess of what they should be doing, threatening the digestive health of a child for a lifetime. Sure the child has digestive symptoms. Quite frankly, this 80% over-prescription finding most likely relates to numerous medications. Doctors today have almost no clue how to fix health issues besides robotically writing a prescription for a symptom-suppressing medication.

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More Insane Statin Pushing on Children

The American Heart Association (AHA) has gone mad, apparently suffering from overexposure to mercury-amalgam fillings. In their marketing magazine, Circulation, which masquerades as a scientific journal, they have now published research advocating an all out national war on childhood cholesterol – seeking to lower LDL cholesterol to 50 mg./dl.

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Mom’s Mood Influences Baby’s Sleep

We have known for a long time that children born to parents who don’t sleep well are likely to have sleep problems. A new study is shedding more light on this issue, indicating that the fetal programming that takes places while in the womb may have a profound effect on a baby’s sleep pattern.

Read More: fetal programming, infants, Melatonin, mother's mood, Pycnogenols, Sleep Helper™

Rapid Infant Weight Gain Predicts Obesity

One lesson you do not want to teach your newborn child is how to become fat. This can be accomplished by causing inappropriate weight gain in the first six months of life, in turn increasing their risk for obesity by 40% by age 3.

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Infants Grow Better on Multiple Vitamins

A new study shows that infants aged 3 – 24 months have better growth when they consistently take a multivitamin every day at the dose of 100% - 150% of the recommended daily allowance (daily value on the supplement facts panel).

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DHA Improves Vision Development in Infants

Infants receiving a formula fortified with DHA had significantly better eyesight at 12 months of age than those fed a control formula.

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The Most and Least Pesticide-Contaminated Foods

The United States Department of Agriculture has an ongoing Pesticide Data Program that tests for pesticide residues on a variety of basic foods, especially those likely to be eaten by infants and children. The Environmental Working Group translates the USDA data into a list of the best and worst foods as far as pesticide residue levels are concerned.

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Friendly Flora Supplements Essential During Pregnancy & Nursing

Friendly flora (also known as probiotics or acidophilus) has been found to drastically reduce the rate of gestational diabetes during pregnancy, benefiting both mother and child. This is another study is a rapidly growing body of science showing that your digestive balance of flora has a tremendous impact on obesity, blood pressure, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, colon cancer risk, inflammatory bowel disease, and type 1 diabetes risk. This information applies to everyone and is especially important for pregnant and nursing mothers.

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Low Vitamin D in Infants & Children Linked to Lung Infections, Allergies, and Anemia

Three new vitamin D studies show just how important vitamin D is to the health of our children. This is especially important because it is widely known that 70% of U.S. children are deficient in vitamin D.

Read More: allergies, anemia, asthma, children, infants, respiratory, Vitamin D