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"But it was the isofiavones in infant formula that gave the Jameses the most cause for concern. In 1998, investigators reported that the daily exposure of infants to isofiavones in soy infant formula is 6 to 11 times higher on a body weight basis than the dose that has hormonal effects in adults consuming soy foods. Circulating concentrations of isofiavones in infants fed soy-based formula were 13,000 to 22,000 times higher than plasma estradiol concentrations in infants on cows milk formula. ..." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Almost all food and water supplies contain some amount of aluminum, for FACT BPA is at unsafe levels in one of every ten servings of canned foods (11 percent) and one of every three cans of infant formula (33 percent). BPA, found in everything from baby bottles and water cooler jugs to bicycle helmets, CDs, and the inside lining of tin cans, is associated with a number of health problems and diseases that are on the rise in the United States population, including breast and prostate cancers and infertility." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"The use of infant formula and increased hygiene practices may be promoting the development of allergies in children by reducing their exposure to probiotics. A lack of probiotics in the intestinal tract allows bad microbes to grow and release toxins that cause intestinal inflammation. Inflammation in the intestines allows allergens to gain access to the body, leading to sensitization. Probiotics can help reduce the exposure of the body to allergens by reducing the permeability of the intestines." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"Soy milk should not be used in place of infant formula. Soy-based infant formulas are specifically formulated for babies' needs. In addition to soy milk, rice milk, oat milk, almond milk, and other dairy-free milks are available. All are free of animal fat, animal protein, and lactose. Some people prefer them to soy milk. SOY PARMESAN Soy Parmesan, available at health food stores, is made from tofu and is low in fat and calcium enriched. Refrigerated, it keeps for months. Most other soy cheese alternatives are too high in fat to be recommended." - Neal D. Barnard and Bryanna Clark Grogan, Dr. Neal Barnard's Program for Reversing Diabetes: The Scientifically Proven System for Reversing Diabetes Without Drugs (Get the book.)

"In the randomized trial held in Baltimore, 55 infants were given an infant formula with or without Bifidobacterium bifi-dum and Streptococcus thermophilus. Infants are commonly infected with Rotavirus, the most frequent cause of diarrhea in children. These probiotics significantly reduced the risk of diarrhea and the growth of Rotavirus. Diarrhea only occurred in 7% of the infants receiving probiotics; meanwhile, 31% of the controls developed diarrhea. B. bifidum and S. thermophilus were successful in preventing illness in these infants." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"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. When the emphasis is on quantifying the nutrients contained in foods (or, to be precise, the recognized nutrients in foods), any qualitative distinction between whole foods and processed foods is apt to disappear. " - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (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.)

"Effect of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in infant formula on infant cognitive function. Lipids 33, 973-980. 20. Strain, J. J., Bonham, M. P., Duffy, E. M., Wallace, J. M. W., Robson, P. J., Clarkson, T. W., and Shamlaye, C. (2004). Nutrition and neurodevelopment: the search for candidate nutrients in the Seychelles Child Development Nutrition Study. Seychelles Med. Dent. J. 7(1), 77. 21. Raymond, L. J., and Ralston, N. V. C. (2004). Mercury: selenium interactions and health implications. Seychelles Med. Dent. J. 7(1), 72-77. 22. Fedrick, J. (1970)." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Besides the transference of antibodies, brain-friendly choline, growth factors, and hormones, breast-feeding also provides more desirable levels of DHA, an n-3 fatty acid that is essential to the neuronal development of newborns, than infant formula.23 The presence of DHA directly influences brain biochemistry and functional development, enhancing, in particular, retinal and cortical function." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"Bb-12 Good Start Natural Cultures?infant formula continued Strain(s) Commercial Products L. casei Shirota, B. breve strain Yakult Yakult? L acidophilus, L. casei (CL 1285) Bio-K+? B. animalis DN173 010 (Bifidis regularis? Danone Activia?yogurt L.johnsoniiL\A (same as NCC533 and formerly L acidophilus La-1) LC1®Go! L. reuteri SD2112 Stonyfield Farms yogurts L. rhamnosus GG (LGG) Dannon Danimals? Lactobacillus bulgaricus, Streptococcus thermophilus, Lactobacillus casei Horizon?" - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"These EAA are provided to the infant by including small amounts of proprietary infant formula in the metabolic formula mixture. As the child grows and matures, adding small amounts of cow or soymilk or fruits, vegetables, and grains can provide these essential amino acids. 5. Breastfeeding Some infants with metabolic disorders are able to maintain low and stable plasma amino acid levels with a combination of breast and metabolic formula feedings." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "Pancreatic enzymes should be taken with all foods and beverages, including breast milk and infant formula. The dosage for enzymes should be individualized based on the patient's diet, degree of PI, intestinal pH, and GI anatomy. In clinical practice, two approaches are used to calculate enzyme doses: 1. Based on the amount of fat in the diet, that is, units of lipase per gram of fat per meal. This method is more physiological than the weight-based method described next. Current CFF guidelines recommend 500-4000 lipase units per gram of fat per meal [70, 71]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"In 1998, investigators reported that the daily exposure of infants to isofiavones in soy infant formula is 6 to 11 times higher on a body weight basis than the dose that has hormonal effects in adults consuming soy foods. Circulating concentrations of isofiavones in infants fed soy-based formula were 13,000 to 22,000 times higher than plasma estradiol concentrations in infants on cows milk formula. ... Fitzpatrick estimated that an infant exclusively fed soy formula receives the estrogenic equivalent (based on body weight) of at least five birth control pills per day." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) "By contrast, almost no phytoestrogens have been detected in dairy-based infant formula or in human milk, even when the mother consumes soy products.16 Fitzpatrick's research confirmed problems Richard and Valerie James were encountering with their own two children, and which other parents were recounting to them about children fed soy-based formula. These included extreme emotional behavior, asthma, problems with immune systems, pituitary insufficiencies, thyroid disorders, and bowel irritations. Another report, presented to the Third International Soy Symposium by Dr." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) "Products being marketed to us such as tofu, soy milk, infant formula, soy ice cream, soy cheese, and soy sausage have not undergone the fermentation process. In their report on the Third International Soy Symposium, regarding the US Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, held April-May 2000, Sally Fallon and Mary Enig state: All food additives not in common use prior to 1958, including casein protein from milk, must have gras (Generally Recognized As Safe) status____To this day, use of soy protein is codified as gras only for limited industrial use as a cardboard binder." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"The amount of phytoestrogens that are in a day's worth of soy infant formula equals 5 birth control pills," says Mike Fitzpatrick, a New Zealand toxicologist.40 A study reported in The Lancet41 found that the "daily exposure of infants to isoflavones in soy infant-formulas is 6?1-fold higher on a bodyweight basis than the dose that has hormonal effects in adults consuming soy foods." This dose, equivalent to two glasses of soy milk per day, was enough to change menstrual patterns in women." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"INBI writes, 'The use of infant formula has been associated with a rise in childhood autoimmune diseases. . . . There can be no justification for increasing higher concentrations of glycation reactants [AGEs] in infant formula." 102 Children also eat plenty of corn products. According to an article in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, "Processing of some ready-to-eat cereals, which includes heating at temperatures over 230°C, may explain the high AGE content of these products." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.) "Infants are sometimes reared on soy infant formula. The Royal Society wrote, "Infant formulas, in particular, are "consumed as a single food over extended periods of time by those who are especially vulnerable" and "should be investigated most rigorously."20 Among the potential side effects are changes in soy's natural estrogen mimickers, which may influence sexual development. Children consume a disproportionately large amount of milk. In the United States and elsewhere, dairy products may come from cows treated with the genetically engineered bovine growth hormone (rbGH)." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.)

"Part Two: Identifying Product Dangers Chapter Five: Products Targeting Infants and Children If you have raised children, you know this loving ritual from firsthand experience: You pamper your infant with all the personal care products at your disposal, bathing him or her with special infant formula soaps and shampoos, soothing his or her skin with lotions, and dusting his or her bottom with talcum powder. You go through this routine every day, thinking you're doing the right thing, never imagining you may be harming your child's health later in life." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"The Average Retail Cost of Infant Formulas, Per Ounce, 2005 FORMULA TYPE COST PER OUNCE Powdered (requires mixing in water) 15C Concentrate (requires dilution in water) 200 Ready-to-feed (milk- or soy-based) 30C Ready-to-feed (milk-based, lactose-free, 50C with added ARA, DHA, and iron) SOME CAVEATS Beyond the difference in cost, does it matter which level of convenience you choose in an infant formula? It might. Powdered formulas are not sterile. In this they differ from concentrate and ready-to-feed formulas, which have been heated to sterilize them." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

"That omega-3 s play an important role in mental function has been recognized since the 1980s, when it was found that babies fed on infant formula supplemented with omega-3 s scored significantly higher on tests of both mental development and visual acuity than babies receiving formula supplemented only with omega-6. Could it be that the problem with the Western diet is a gross deficiency in this essential nutrient? A growing number of researchers have concluded that it is, and they voice frustration that official nutritional advice has been slow to recognize the problem." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"The study included a control group who were given an infant formula that contained no additional probiotics. As with all studies, it is important to measure the effects. A compound found in the blood, called IgE, can be used to measure inflammation. Interestingly, the level or amount of bad microbes (E. coli) was related to the level of IgE in these infants. As such, the researchers think that bad microbes are involved in the development of an allergic response. How does this work? The bad microbes change the gastrointestinal environment by producing toxins and damaging intestinal cells." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"Another is that infant formula becomes a fungible commodity, one that can be exchanged on the open market for cash, and these products rank high on the list of those most frequently stolen from supermarkets. Some stores keep infant formulas under lock and key and you have to ask for them if you want to buy them. Formula companies also agree to the kickback arrangement because they can afford to; the industry is highly concentrated and, therefore, highly profitable." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

"The only time the law specifically authorizes the FDA to act in this manner is when a medical device, human tissue product or infant formula poses a risk to human health. That leaves a whole bunch of products out there with the potential to cause harm. Buyer beware." - Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.)

"These antibodies had apparently arisen in response to cow proteins in their infant formula, but the antibodies were also capable of attacking the body's insulin-producing cells.4 It turned out that a portion of the cow's milk protein was biochemically an exact match for a portion of human insulin-producing cells. The antibodies that arose to destroy the cow's milk protein ended up attacking the children's insulin-producing cells. The pancreatic cells were destroyed by "friendly fire." - Neal D. Barnard and Bryanna Clark Grogan, Dr. Neal Barnard's Program for Reversing Diabetes: The Scientifically Proven System for Reversing Diabetes Without Drugs (Get the book.)

"Mature human milk differs greatly from both infant formula and either cow or goat milk. Human milk, made specifically for the nutritional needs of the newborn, is superior to all alternatives. One significant advantage of human breast milk is its abundance of immune-protective and anti-infective agents, including immunoglobulins (primarily immunoglobulin A, or IgA), lactoferrin, Bifidobacterium bifidum, white blood cells, and other factors. These agents are known to help the newborn fight a wide variety of illnesses." - Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D., The Natural Pharmacy: Complete A-Z Reference to Natural Treatments for Common Health Conditions (Get the book.) "A double-blind trial reported that use of a hypoallergenic infant formula plus probiotics (page 575) (500 million organisms of Lactobacillus GG bacteria per gram of formula, taken for one month) initially led to improvement in eczema symptoms in infants with suspected allergy (page 14) to cows'milk.30 However, by the end of two months, both the group receiving Lactobacillus GG and the placebo group had improved approximately the same amount." - Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D., The Natural Pharmacy: Complete A-Z Reference to Natural Treatments for Common Health Conditions (Get the book.)

"Several years ago, the British government discovered that nine brands of commonly used infant formula contained potentially harmful chemicals. Formula made with cow's milk is a product that has been chemically altered in a laboratory. The same applies to both soy-based and protein hydrolysate formulas. There is nothing natural about these foods. Just imagine what feeding lifeless, factory foods to human infants must do to them! How many infants are regularly seen by doctors because of various illnesses?" - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"LifeStart® powder can be added to infant formula or other beverages. To find out more about LifeStart®, visit www.na-tren.com or call a probiotic counselor at 1-866- 4-Natren (1-866-462-8736). The Secret of Extracts... 434 Which is more healthful: soybeans or soybean paste soup? ... 434 Tea: hot water extraction ... 434 Alcohol or water extracts? ... 435 Olive washings... 435 Wine: an extract from grapes ... 435 Red wine pills ... 436 Preserving red wine molecules in pills... 436 Cruciferous vegetables and cancer ... 437 Artemisia ... 439 Tea and cancer... 440 Drawbacks of green tea ..." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.)

"Supplementation of infant formula with iron up to 18 months of age in inner city infants has been shown to prevent iron-deficiency anemia and to reduce the decline in mental development seen in such infants in some,5 but not all,6 studies. Breath-holding spells are a common problem affecting about 27% of healthy children.7 These spells have been associated with iron-deficiency anemia,8 and several studies have reported improvement of breath-holding spells with iron supplementation." - Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D., The Natural Pharmacy: Complete A-Z Reference to Natural Treatments for Common Health Conditions (Get the book.)

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