If You Have to Use Baby Formula You Need to Know These Fat Fact

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Baby formula manufacturers, including Abbott Laboratories,

Bristol-Myers Squibb and Wyeth, are promoting new baby formula

supplemented with fatty acids as a way to make babies smarter and have

better eyesight. However, the additives may not live up to the claims,

as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which oversees the

composition of formula, said results of studies to show the health

benefits of fatty acid additives to formula were mixed.

 

Baby formula supplemented with fatty acids could cost parents an

additional $200 a year for formula. The manufacturers explain the

added cost by pointing out the fact that only one company makes the

forms of DHA and ARA used in infant formula. The American Academy of

Pediatrics has not endorsed the new formulas because of their

potential " unknown adverse effects. "

 

According to parents and pediatricians...

 

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Sheena Judd

http://health.naturalhealthinformation/