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Breast milk lacks vitamin D

by Jennifer Jordan, Posted Aug 26th 2008 11:01AM

Is there a downside to breastfeeding? A new report from the New York Times might have you thinking so. In a recent article, several studies monitoring a lack of vitamin D in infants might support that breastmilk is not enough to prevent things like ...
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Breast-fed infants and vitamin D supplements

by Heather Craven, Posted Aug 10th 2006 8:00PM

As recently noted by fellow staff member Rachel Mosteller in a Blogging Baby post about the low levels of Vitamin D in adolescent girls, a study in Pediatrics suggested that breast-fed babies living in northern latitudes often lack healthy levels of ...
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Protect your baby from osteoporosis

by Keith McDuffee, Posted Jan 27th 2006 7:01AM

Concerned about your unborn child getting osteoporosis when he or she gets older? Probably not the first concern on your mind during your pregnancy, but an easily preventable one nonetheless. A recent study showed that if a pregnant mom didn't get ...
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