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Experts at the University of Virginia say that breastfeeding lowers the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), a condition in which newborns and small children simply die in their cradles. For a long time, an explanation as to why this happens has been pending. The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) managed... |
13 June 2011
10:05 GMT |
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In the workplace, women still face a lot of ridicule and discrimination if they want to breastfeed. Already, not many new mothers do this, despite it being the best and most natural course of action. Being subjected to discrimination does not help in this regard at all. Healthcare agencies and departments around the ... |
19 April 2011
03:58 GMT |
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In 2001, the World Health Organization (WHO) made a global recommendation that babies should be breast fed exclusively, during their first six months of life, but the debate over the matter just got bigger, as a new research appearing on bmj.com, says otherwise.
Child health experts led by Dr Mary Fewtrell, a cons... |
15 January 2011
05:54 GMT |
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A new study carried out by the Emory University School of Medicine concluded that epilepsy drugs may not affect the IQ of babies being breastfed.This is quite reassuring for nursing mothers, who believed that breastfeeding while taking seizure medication could affect the child's IQ later in life.The research inc... |
25 November 2010
05:11 GMT |
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In a positive twist, more new mothers today choose to breastfeed their children, as this is the most natural way to go about taking care of the young ones. But breast milk does not provide sufficient amounts of vitamin D, and moms need to be aware of this too.According to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), a n... |
8 November 2010
05:12 GMT |
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Australian health authorities recommend exclusive breastfeeding for babies to six months of age, but despite this, there are children as young as four weeks that are being badly fed.A new Australian research carried out on 587 women from two Perth maternity hospitals, revealed that nearly one in four mothers started ... |
6 September 2010
10:22 GMT |
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Experts in the United States recently determined that breastfeeding can be used as an indicator of gagging a woman's risk of developing type II diabetes later on in life. The researchers found that females who had breastfed their babies after birth were a lot more likely not to exhibit any of the symptoms associ... |
27 August 2010
08:52 GMT |
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Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) made a study proving that probiotics help reduce eczema cases in babies. Mothers drinking probiotic milk reduced by up to 40% eczema incidence in their children by age two.415 pregnant women, chosen randomly, were followed starting at week 36 in... |
21 July 2010
09:00 GMT |
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The old idea that all breastfed children are equally protected against diseases has been recently blown away by a study showing that girls benefit more than boys from the protective effects of the breast milk, but also that girls fed with baby formula are more likely to fall victim to a respiratory infection that the... |
2 June 2008
09:46 GMT |
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Breastfeeding is good not only for the baby, but it is also beneficial for the new moms. A new Swedish research published in the Annals of Rheumatic Diseases shows that women who breastfeed for at least 13 months reduce their chance of rheumatoid arthritis by 50%, compared to those who have never breastfed. Comparati... |
13 May 2008
03:21 GMT |
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Currently, in many western countries, less than 1% of women breastfeed continuously for the first six months of the baby's life. In the UK, the category most prone to breastfeeding was found to be formed of well educated, professional women, older than 30 and mothers for the first time. The fear of ending up wit... |
6 May 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Jennifer Lopez gave birth to her twins a month ago to date, and apart from the obvious joy of welcoming her babies she so ardently desired, the Latino singer also welcomed a hefty pay-day: her interview and photo spread with People magazine brought her an extra $6 million in her bank account, as well as a whole lot o... |
22 March 2008
08:07 GMT |
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I must say, Nicole Richie talking things like baby diets and breastfeeding makes me want to make a few phone calls and check whether the world is ending and the sky is falling, you know, things like that. I mean, who would have ever imagined that the waif-like, selfish little princess with the heart of ice and the ea... |
28 February 2008
04:21 GMT |
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Jessica "look at me, I'm so much better than you" Alba is pregnant and the whole world knows that. She's also one of the most annoying and glum-looking celebrities out there - well, at least that's how she looks on 90% of the times she's photographed in public, and we also know that her patronizin... |
24 January 2008
11:03 GMT |
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Today, in many western countries, less than 1% of women breastfeed exclusively for the first six months of the baby's life. In UK, the categories most prone to breastfeeding were found to be well educated, professional women, older than 30 and mothers for the first time. The fear of ending up with the saggy boob... |
4 December 2007
14:06 GMT |
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For tens of years, specialists advertise that the maternal milk "is the best and healthiest food" for the new-born. Moreover, in poor countries, the risk for the newborn of dying because of diarrhea symptoms is 15 times higher for the babies fed by nipple than by breastfeeding. In fact, United Nations Children's... |
27 March 2007
11:11 GMT |
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