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"A study in Pittsburgh revealed that 92 percent of African American newborns and 66 percent of European American newborns had vitamin D levels less than 30 nanograms per milliliter (normal > 35). And the infants had lower vitamin D levels than their mothers. This also means that they had vitamin D deficiency during development in the uterus. You can use the same formulas and tables for children and infants. According to my observations and those of Dr. Armin Zitter-mann, weight-based dosing is the same for children as for adults." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"Studies from Clapp and others have shown that newborns of active women are leaner, which you might think is cause for concern, except that the physical differences even out within the first year. Exercise seems to be more than just not harmful, though. In one study, Clapp compared thirty-four newborns of exercisers to thirty-one of sedentary mothers five days after birth." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"A study in Pittsburgh revealed that 92 percent of African American newborns and 66 percent of European American newborns had vitamin D levels less than 30 nanograms per milliliter (normal > 35). And the infants had lower vitamin D levels than their mothers. This also means that they had vitamin D deficiency during development in the uterus. You can use the same formulas and tables for children and infants. According to my observations and those of Dr. Armin Zitter-mann, weight-based dosing is the same for children as for adults." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"In fact a recent study of the umbilical cord blood of ten American newborns commissioned by the Environmental Working Group proved that pesticides and other chemicals are found in the blood of newborns. The analysis found 287 foreign, toxic chemicals in total, while the babies averaged 200 contaminants each! Ideally, one should come to pregnancy having already been cleansed and raw for years. But that is not always possible, as in the case of unplanned pregnancy. In such a case, there are those who feel pregnancy is nonetheless a great time for a woman to go raw." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"The Alimentum was supposed to be the easiest for newborns to handle, but it had corn oil in it, and Priya seemed to be sensitive to anything that contained corn oil or corn syrup. As Priya got a little older and started to eat solid foods, Anju found that a number of foods made Priya gassy, bloated, and irritable. Priya was a sensitive baby. She seemed to cry a lot, and tossed and turned in her crib at night. She wasn't growing well. She was beautifully delicate, but too tiny. Anju spoke to Priya's pediatrician often, but he wasn't concerned." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"However, though we do not know any absolute contraindications to coenzyme Qio, we do not recommend it for pregnant women, nursing mothers, very young children, or newborns, since there is not yet enough data on its use in these populations. See the inset "Adverse Events Reported for Long-Term Usage of Coenzyme Qi0 in 5,000 Patients" below for a summary of reported adverse reactions from 5,000 patients on coenzyme Q10 therapy. Drug Interactions In all our combined years of experience with coenzyme Qi0, we have seen only a very few major drug interactions." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"He theorizes that physical activity jostles the baby in the womb, providing stimulation not unlike the effects of touching and holding newborns, which clearly improves brain development. In another comparison at five years of age, he found no differences in behavior and most cognitive measures, but there were statistically significant differences in IQ and oral language skills. The children of exercisers performed better, and his unpublished observations suggest that years later their academic performance is better than kids whose moms were inactive, which is amazing." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.) "In one study, Clapp compared thirty-four newborns of exercisers to thirty-one of sedentary mothers five days after birth. There's only so much you can do to gauge behavior at this early stage, but the babies from the exercise group "performed" better on two of six tests: they were more responsive to stimuli and better able to quiet themselves following a disturbance of sound or light. Clapp sees this as significant because it suggests that infants of exercising mothers are more neurologically developed than their counterparts from sedentary mothers." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"Frederick vom Saal of the University of Missouri-Columbia, fetuses and newborns exposed to BPA even at low doses have a higher likelihood of developing prostate and breast cancer later in life. So make an effort to reduce your child's contact with BPA by choosing healthier baby bottles. BPA-free bottles include Evenflo glass bottles, which are available at major retail stores and select supermarkets. When Wyatt was a baby, glass bottles were a lot harder to find than they are now. I ended up ordering two dozen from the only source that stocked them, and I never broke a single one." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "Organochlorine pesticides (OCs) 7 chemicals (2-6) Sources and uses of chemicals in newborn blood Chemical family name Total number of chemicals found in 10 newborns (range in individual babies Stain and grease resistant coatings for food wrap, carpet, furniture Perfluorochemicals (PFCs) 8 chemicals (4-8) Fire retardants in TVs, computers, furniture Polybrominated di-phenyl ethers (PBDEs) 32 chemicals (13-29) Chemicals banned or severely resticted in the U.S. (and their breakdown products) 212 chemicals (111-185) Pesticides, phased out of use in U.S." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "Tests show 287 industrial chemicals in 10 newborn babies Pollutants include consumer product ingredients, banned industrial chemicals and pesticides, and waste byproducts Sources and uses of chemicals in newborn blood Chemical family name Total number of chemicals found in 10 newborns (range in individual babies) Common consumer product chemicals (and their breakdown products) 47 chemicals (23-38) Pesticides, actively used in U.S." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"One study in Finland, Sweden, and Estonia identified 242 newborns at risk for developing Type-l because each had a first-degree relative with the condition. They encouraged the mothers to breastfeed, and when weaning their babies, the mothers used a specifically modified baby formula in which the dairy proteins were broken up into individual amino acids. The other families were allowed to use regular cow's milk. The children who were fed the specific formula were much less likely to develop the anti-beta cell antibodies; their risk was cut by 62 percent." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"The amount of mercury given to newborns on their first day of life was 36 times too much. In addition, the viral material in the vaccinations can be toxic by itself, when immunizations are given in excess, or over too short of a time period, or to a child with an already compromised immune system. The viruses, plus the mercury, combine to create a double hit against the immune system, which can skew its normal function, making it too inactive to respond properly to even weakened viruses, or so overactive that it attacks healthy cells, including brain cells." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"I knew that the amount we had prescribed wasn't toxic, because thirty years ago, public health policy in the Netherlands had mandated that all newborns receive 2,000 IU of vitamin D (in cod liver oil) to prevent rickets, and there were no observations of any toxicity. How did Jennifer do? Her first-visit scores and notes looked like this: ?0.375-65-0-15-6 (function, pain, fatigue, health perception, sleep) ?90 minutes of stiffness in the morning At follow-up four months later, though, the changes looked like this: ?0.125-0-15-5-6 scores ?No stiffness ?Function improved by 67 percent ?" - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"Natto was also given to pregnant women to ensure healthy newborns. To this day, the people of Japan consume natto regularly, and it may be one of the reasons why they live longer. In his excellent book Reversing Heart Disease, Stephen Sinatra, M.D., suggests eating natto two or three times a week for both prevention and as part of a therapeutic program. Supplementing with Soy What's so amazing about a bunch of boiled, fermented soybeans? In a word, nattokinase." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Bad microbes such as Escherichia coli and Enterococci are frequently found in early stool samples of newborns and commonly are identical to strains found in their mother. Bifidobacterium can be found in breast milk. As such, it is not surprising that Bifidobacterium can be detected in feces within two days of birth and is known to colonize in almost all infants by the end of their first week of life. Shortly after, Bifidobacterium will dominate the infants microflora, as long as breast-feeding continues." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.) "Research shows that both asthma and eczema are linked to abnormal immune responses in newborns. Can probiotics be helpful to children who are at risk of developing allergic diseases such as asthma? Finnish researchers have found that children who were exposed to probiotics around the time of birth were 40% less likely to develop atopic eczema than children in a placebo group; however, exposure to probiotics did not have any protective effect against asthma. Lactobacillus casei can reduce the rate of eczema in infants, but there has been no word yet on its ability to prevent asthma." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.) "The newborns had no evidence of adverse effects and experienced a significant reduction in the incidence of watery diarrhea. In these trials, many children had confirmed Rotavirus infections causing the diarrhea. A large number of clinical trials support the use of L. reuteri to reduce the severity and duration of diarrhea. Salmonella Salmonella is one of the major causes of foodborne illness worldwide. Every year, approximately 40,000 cases of Salmonella infections (poisoning) are reported in the United States." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"Food and Drug Administration mandated supplementation of folic acid to grains, cereals, rice, pasta, and bread in an effort to curb the incidence of neural tube defects, a deficiency-related condition causing malformation of the spine or the head in newborns. Nevertheless, folic acid and B-6 deficiencies are still common. So, too, is B-12 deficiency, particularly in the elderly due to a decline in the production of stomach acid. Selected Research McCully's homocysteine theory received a breakthrough boost in the early 1990s from evidence emerging out of the famous Framingham Heart Study." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"The multi-dose version of the hepatitis B vaccine, which is typically given to newborns before they leave the hospital, still contains thimerosal—the mercury-containing preservative. The central nervous systems of newborns are utterly defenseless against these toxic assaults. It doesn't help that the hepatitis B vaccine has nearly zero benefits for the child. The hepatitis B vaccine is supposed to protect an adult against hepatitis B infection and liver cancer." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"WARNING SIGN -4Sjx Lanugo—the fine hair newborns have covering their bodies—is sometimes seen on adults. When it is, it may be a sign of the eating disorder ^Sr anorexia nervosa. SIGN OF THE TIMES Women with hirsutism may also have a deep voice, big muscles, small breasts, an enlarged clitoris, and irregular periods—all signs of an androgen-related hormone disorder called masculinization. With or without these other signs, hirsutism can be an unfortunate reaction to hormone-containing drugs, such as birth control pills, steroids, fertility drugs, and testosterone." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"According to the American Academy of Pediatrics' Green Book, "Epidemics involving absorption of chemicals through the skin in newborns include hypothyroidism from iodine in Betadine scrub solutions, neurotoxicity from hexachlorophene, and hyperbilirubinemia from phenolic disinfectants used to clean hospital equipment." If you're interested in learning more about your birthing options, do some online research. You can find information on freestanding birthing centers (for example, www.greenhousebirthcenter." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"TABLE 3 Generally Accepted Criteria for Newborn Screening for a Specific Disorder Symptoms are usually absent in newborns. Disease results in developmental impairment, serious illness, or death. Sensitive, specific laboratory tests are available on a mass population basis. Disease occurs frequently enough to warrant screening. Successful treatment procedures are available. Benefits of screening justify the cost. Follow-up and treatment programs are available. Adapted from Newborn Screening Fact Sheets, 2006 [46]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"And for many years, one of the more unsettling questions in the field of viral autoimmune-disease research has been whether individuals exposed to common viruses while in their mothers' wombs, or as newborns, are more likely to develop type 1 juvenile-onset diabetes. In type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune disease also known as insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, or IDDM, the pancreas undergoes an attack by the body's own immune system and becomes incapable of making insulin. Investigations into whether viruses might be implicated in type 1 diabetes go back decades." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) "Shortly after, investigators in the Netherlands turned up similar findings: they discovered an array of chemicals commonly found in household cleaners, cosmetics, and furniture in the cord blood of thirty newborns. OUR AUTOGEN-FILLED WORLD: HOW DID WE BECOME SO CONTAMINATED? How do these chemicals creep into our bodies? The process occurs through the simple exposures to contaminants in our world that most of us rarely think twice about. Consider the substances that Becky came into contact with in just one day." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"In most states it is required by law that vitamin K be given to newborns in the hospital by injection in the foot immediately after birth or a shot during labor to prevent hemolytic disease, which is characterized by anemia, jaundice, enlargement of the liver and spleen, and generalized edema. Naturopathic doctors recommend checking the pregnant mother's diet for vitamin K deficiency and adding oral supplementation of vitamin K in the last month of pregnancy, if needed, rather than automatically giving the shots, which have been shown in some studies to link with childhood cancer." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"No one had as yet considered the possibility that it could have such a side effect in human newborns, but I couldn't get any of the doctors working with the babies to collaborate with me on the research. Could it be that they didn't want to be associated with research that might reveal that a drug they had been using for years was actually causing brain damage? As for the effects of dexamethasone on the brain, we still don't know, since that research was never done." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Healthy newborns can have as many as 150 biophoton units/sec/sq. cm; whereas elderly people near the end of their lives emit 50-units/sec/sq. cm, or less. Whereas a healthy newborn's biophoton light is bright, the older person's light is dim. Similarly, a healthy newborn's vibrations are high, while the older person's vibrations are low. All life forms have their own individual gv and wl potentials, and Kirlian photography is a method of capturing pictures of these electromagnetic energy fields." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Breast-fed newborns may be deficient in vitamin K because: (a) Breast milk is low in vitamin K. (b) Intestinal bacteria may not be present to make vitamin K. (c) The vitamin K conservation cycle may not be operational. (d) All of the above. 51. Water intake must: (a) Exactly match water output. (b) Exceed water output. (c) Be less than water output. (d) Be one gallon more than water output. 52. The body loses about 33 percent of its water through: (a) Sweating. (b) Skin diffusion. (c) Sweating plus skin diffusion. (d) The feces. 53." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

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