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"Leonard Bailey, a few hundred of the United States' infant heart transplants have occurred at LLUMC. The photographic display is a montage of survivors, including a strapping young man in his early twenties who was the world's first successful infant-to-infant heart transplant recipient in 1985. After the tour, I made a long trek through the courtyard to a far corner of the campus. There I found a side entrance to Evans Hall, a building that once housed unassuming classrooms for medical and dental students and now housed the university's Center for Health Promotion." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"For babies and young infants relaxation cannot be taught, but it is possible for a parent to help them relax by massage, and a relaxed baby will breathe more easily than a tense one. infant welfare clinics will often refer you to trained infant massage therapists. Massage may also help relieve colicky or fretful babies. Relaxation can also be mastered by children through playing games like the elephant walk (see Chapter 6). And, of course, sometimes just a simple cuddle of a baby or child will be reassuring and comforting enough to relieve the child's distress." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"Administering digestive enzymes to the infant and mother before feeding times may also be highly beneficial. ENZYME SUPPLEMENTATION SUGGESTIONS: Infants: A half a capsule of digestive formula mixed in tepid water administered through a syringe or dropper into the child's mouth with every meal or bottle. If results are not satisfactory, increase dosage or repeat as often as needed, important note: Do not mix enzymes with breast milk or formula, since the enzymes will begin to hydrolyze it. Administer enzymes in water to the infant before the child ingests any food." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.) "Infants: Dissolve 1/3 of Digestive Formula capsule and administer to infant before feeding. Purpose:To enhance the digestion and assimilation of food while reducing the body's need to produce digestive enzymes Each serving should contain approximately: Necessary Ingredients: Amylase blend 12,000 DU Alpha-galactosidase 75 GALU Protease blend 42,000 HUT Lipase blend 500 FCCFIP Invertase 10IAU Lactase 850 LacU Maltase 200 DP Phytase 50 PU Cellulase blend 200 CU Pectinase 50 AJDU Helpful Ingredients: Xylanase L." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"Infant welfare clinics will often refer you to trained infant massage therapists. Massage may also help relieve colicky or fretful babies. Relaxation can also be mastered by children through playing games like the elephant walk (see Chapter 6). And, of course, sometimes just a simple cuddle of a baby or child will be reassuring and comforting enough to relieve the child's distress. Other activities that will help children with asthma control their breathing from the diaphragm are learning to sing or play a wind or brass instrument." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"This type of testing can give important information on what type of lifestyle, diet, and supplements the pregnant mother and infant should take to optimize their health and avoid the nutritional and toxic disasters that can face unborn children and infants. Let me give you an example. As many as 10 percent of Caucasians produce low levels of a specific enzyme required for proper detoxification in the body. In fact, at least twenty-five commonly used drugs need this enzyme to be present in the body for the detox pathway to work efficiently." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"As noted, an infant born today has pretty much the same biological equipment as an infant born ten thousand years ago. Yet an infant born today in the developed world will be able to stand on the shoulders of the giants of history and assimilate the lessons of the last five thousand years of human cultural evolution by the time she graduates from college." - Steve McIntosh, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Get the book.)

"These viruses cause an immune inflammation response that destroys the beta cells of the pancreas in an infant. infant research suggests that exposure to German measles in the womb may have a 40 percent greater chance of developing Type-1 diabetes. Type-1 diabetes can run in families, but there is a weak association. About 85 percent of people who develop Type-1 diabetes do not have an immediate family member who is diabetic. If you're a twin with diabetes, you have a one-in-three risk factor for Type-1. Figure 17 shows the risk factors associated with other family member diabetics." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"While extra vitamin K intake during pregnancy does not increase vitamin K in the unborn child, large amounts of vitamin K intake during breastfeeding can increase the infant's blood vitamin K levels. The vitamin K deficiency bleeding problems normally occur one to seven weeks after birth. Mothers would need to eat a cup of broccoli or other vitamin K-rich food and a large green salad coupled with extra supplementation to boost the infant's vitamin K levels." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.) "For mothers who refuse vitamin K injections for their infant, several oral doses of vitamin K are an alternative. If neither is chosen, dietary changes may reduce the possibility of vitamin K deficiency bleeding. While extra vitamin K intake during pregnancy does not increase vitamin K in the unborn child, large amounts of vitamin K intake during breastfeeding can increase the infant's blood vitamin K levels. The vitamin K deficiency bleeding problems normally occur one to seven weeks after birth." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"This is great for an infant, but continue to consume IGF as you age and certain cells are continuously stimulated to grow—namely, breast gland cells, prostate gland cells, colon cells, skin cells, and cells lining your blood vessels and joints. Is it any wonder that milk consumption in adulthood is correlated with increased rates of breast, prostate, and colon cancer? Increased incidence of atherosclerosis is another association: Remember those breast-fed infants with plaques? That's right, milk." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"In recent years, manufacturers of infant formulas (mostly in Europe) have begun supplementing their formulas with EFAs, particularly DHA and arachidonic acid (ARA). This may be especially important for preterm infants, who don't spend enough time in the womb to get sufficient amounts of EFAs. Also, preterm infants may not have developed the ability to convert alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) and linoleic acid (LA) into other important compounds. Adding these EFAs to infant formula allows infants who aren't breastfed to get the DHA and ARA breast milk provides." - Jonathan Goodman ND, The Omega Solution: Unleash the Amazing, Scientifically Based Healing Power of Omega-3 & -6 Fatty Acids (Get the book.)

"But since when is the definition of "food" something that can be given to an infant? You wouldn't give an infant steak, Coca-Cola, french fries, or a Snickers bar, but most Americans would in fact classify those items as food. You also wouldn't give an infant rice and beans, but those are clearly foods. Everything we consume does not have to be consumable by infants. And if a drug has to be mild enough for an infant to be okay for adults, that rules out most of the pharmaceuticals approved for use in the United States, as well as cigarettes and alcohol." - Robyn Landis, Herbal Defense (Get the book.)

"The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends 200 IU of vitamin D a day for an infant up to two months of age who doesn't take supplemental formula. This ruling takes it for granted that a breast-feeding mother is probably vitamin D-deficient and that her breast milk has no vitamin D. If you assume that an average newborn infant weighs about eight pounds, giving a baby 20 to 25 IU per pound will amount to 160 to 200 IU of vitamin D a day, which is exactly what the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"Colic is thought to be caused by spasms in the intestines of an infant, and may be triggered by a milk/dairy allergy or intolerance, but the research is not conclusive. Infantile colic is common, occurring in approximately one in ten babies, starting between the first and sixth week of life and usually continuing until the child is three or four months old. The baby usually cries, turns red in the face, may pass gas, clench his fists, and draw up his legs. If the baby runs a fever or becomes ill with bouts of colic, a doctor should be consulted." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"For example, if doctors had given the infant other medicines in addition to Propulsid, the writer had put the names of those drugs in italics, a change that seemed intended to raise doubt that it had been Propulsid that caused the harm. "I don't disagree that MedWatch forms are cumbersome to review, but how we choose to portray the safety of cisapride now, especially for as delicate (and socially sensitive) a population as neonates and infants, is critical," Kurland wrote." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Coulter, Vaccination, Social Violence, and Criminality, (North Atlantic Books, California 1990) 133 Sudden infant Death Syndrome: also known as crib death, a fatal syndrome that affects sleeping infants under a year old, wherein the baby suddenly stops breathing 134 Tim O'Shea, The Sanctity of Human Blood, Vaccination is not Immunization, (North Woods, 2003), p. 54 Here is just one more example. The side effects following smallpox vaccination can cause severe skin infections, sometimes destroying tissue and causing permanent disability." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"If a pregnant mother takes antidepressants, then the infant will go through toxicity in the uterus and then undergo withdrawal symptoms after it is born. These drugs also enter into breast milk, causing toxicity and withdrawal symptoms in the nursing infant. Although it seems counterintuitive, antidepressants can cause depression, anxiety, and mania while they are being taken as well as while they are being tapered and stopped. This is true for many withdrawal symptoms: they can occur while an individual is taking the drug and also during withdrawal." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Behavioral and Learning Disorders_ Maternal Consumption of a Docosahexaenoic Acid-Containing Functional Food During Pregnancy: Benefit for infant Performance on Problem-Solving but not on Recognition Memory Tasks at Age 9 Months. Judge MP; Harel O; et al. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2007 June, 85(6): 1572-1577. Infants whose mothers consumed a DHA-containing functional food during pregnancy were found at age 9 months to have advantages in problem solving but not recognition memory." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "ESSENTIAL FATTY ACIDS: Infants and toddlers raised on infant formulas rather than mother's breast milk are deprived of the omega-3 and omega-6 essential fatty acids. Low levels of essential fatty acids have been associated with a wide range of psychological disorders and a couple of studies reveal that omega-3 deficiency is nearly always present in autistic children. DIGESTIVE ENZYMES: Autistic children sometimes have decreased digestive enzyme levels, which contributes to the body's inability to digest food sufficiently." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Unlike the young of many other species, the human infant doesn't have to recognize the mother immediately. Unlike newly hatched chicks, a human baby can't walk away and get lost; it's the mother who can walk away and has to learn to connect with the infant. But certainly, normal human infants are born with the capacity to learn to trust. It is critical for human infants to have the repeated ?many, many times repeated ?experience of feeling discomfort or need that is then met. Having that need met, whoever does it, is critical." - APC Books, Healing Our Planet, Healing Our Selves: The Power of change Within to Change the World (Get the book.)

"For example, when it was suggested on the Northwest TV show Town Meeting,15 that herbs are foodlike, the host asked, "Can you give Herbal Ecstacy to an infant?" When the tesponse was no, he snapped, "Then it's not a food." But since when is the definition of "food" something that can be given to an infant? You wouldn't give an infant steak, Coca-Cola, french fries, or a Snickers bar, but most Americans would in fact classify those items as food. You also wouldn't give an infant rice and beans, but those are clearly foods. Everything we consume does not have to be consumable by infants." - Robyn Landis, Herbal Defense (Get the book.)

"They went on to estimate that 15 percent of infant deaths in the 60s could be attributed to pesticide exposure before birth." While researchers still have a great deal to learn about the causes of preterm delivery, the medical establishment widely acknowledges that preemies face greater challenges than full-term babies, from lung problems to neurodevelopmental challenges. In recent years, some researchers (including those from the Environmental Working Group) have even begun to link the rise in premature births to the obesity epidemic." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"What Causes infant Colic? Infant colic, and the projectile vomiting that sometimes ensues, is caused by poor digestion. In bottle-fed babies, pasteurized cow's milk and infant formulas are often the culprit.35 Breast-fed babies may have colic due to a digestive problem in the mother. Prevention and Elimination of infant Colic If you are breast-feeding and your baby has colic, consider taking multiple digestive enzymes with each meal. The specific enzymes you need can be determined by a urinalysis and detailed health history." - Lita Lee, Lisa Turner and Burton Goldberg, The Enzyme Cure: How Plant Enzymes Can Help You Relieve 36 Health Problems (Get the book.)

"Earth's Best Organic infant Formula (www.babyorganic .com) • Nature's One Baby's Only Organic (www.naturesone .com), with cow's milk or soymilk • Ultra Bright Beginnings Organic (www.brightbeginnings .com/products/organic-baby-formula.asp), with cow's milk Because the lipids in formula are derived from coconuts and other vegetable sources, they don't contain the kind of scary chemicals?including DDE, PCBs, hexachlorobenzene, and various industrial pesticides—found in human breast milk. Even women who haven't been occupationally exposed to these chemicals might be contaminated, so be careful." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Neonatal herpes can be transmitted from a mother to a newborn infant, often during passage through an infected birth canal (a Caesarean section can protect the infant from transmission). During an infected baby's first month, this is a life-threatening disease because the infant's immune system is not sufficiently developed to fight the virus. Herpes in infants generally attacks the central nervous system and has a 50% to 60% fatality rate. Babies who do survive often suffer from significant brain damage and/or blindness." - Lita Lee, Lisa Turner and Burton Goldberg, The Enzyme Cure: How Plant Enzymes Can Help You Relieve 36 Health Problems (Get the book.)

"Questionable Human Standards Of all the commercial infant food formulas available on the grocery store shelves, none currently has more than twelve minerals available as a constituent of the basic ingredients. Science Diet dog food has no less than forty. Lab rats are fed rabbit pellets with at least twenty-eight minerals. Mere coincidence, or do these facts suggest a healthier population of animals than infant humans? Of course, the most obvious symptoms of childhood illnesses are written off as normal and routine." - Richard, Dr. DiCenso, Beyond Medicine, exploring a new way of thinking (Get the book.)

"Foods as varied as cola drinks, infant formulas, baked goods, caramel, and brewed products contain glycotoxins. Foods high in fat and protein (such as meat and poultry) typically have the highest glycotoxin levels. How you prepare your food (or have it prepared for you if you eat out) can also have a significant impact on the formation of glycotoxins. We discuss the amount of glycotoxins in various foods in detail in chapter 5, on nutrition. If blood glucose levels remain high and/or your diet contains high amounts of glycotoxins, your tissues will become inflamed." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"Most people don't think ofan infant as being depressed, but when a baby cries all the time, you could say he's depressed, or in an anxious state, or in a state of pain. It was certainly very stressful for the both of us. As it turned out, most of his problems were allergy-related. He had ear infections, bronchitis, very severe eczema, and his digestive tract had become very permeable. Within a month after I had taken my son to Dr. Stoll, and we had begun regenerating his intestinal lining through treating his candidiasis and watching his diet, I began seeing some improvement." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"In utero, the fetus body is 90 percent water, and an infant's body is 75-80 percent water. If we don't hydrate appropriately with H20, our water content may drop as low as 50 percent with age. Water is one of the main components of other compounds: Fat is 20 percent water, blood is 80 percent water, bone 25 percent, kidneys 80 percent, liver 70 percent, muscles 75 percent, skin 70 percent, and the brain 85 percent. This is very important when you realize that 85 percent of the brain is water, and when the brain starts to dehydrate, the neurons dehydrate and shrink." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

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