Study suggests prolonged bottle feeding increases the risk of obesity
Public release date: 5-May-2011 Cincinnati, OH, May 5, 2011 — Experts agree that obesity prevention should begin before children enter school. But due to a lack of…
Mother’s milk improves the physical condition of future adolescents
Public release date: 5-Jan-2011 - “If all children were exclusively breastfed from birth, it would be possible to save approximately 1.5 million lives”. - The paper, which was published in…
Bottle feeding associated with increased risk of stomach obstruction in infants
Contact: Liz Hunter ehunter@uw.edu 206-616-3192 The JAMA Network Journals Bottle feeding appears to increase the risk infants will develop hypertrophic pyloric stenosis (HPS), a form of stomach obstruction, and that…
Why BPA leached from ‘safe’ plastics may damage health of female offspring
Public release date: 25-Feb-2010 - This suggests that early exposure to BPA genetically "programmed" the uterus to be hyper-responsive to estrogen. - "The BPA baby bottle scare may be only…
BPA, chemical used to make plastics, found to leach from polycarbonate drinking bottles into humans
Public release date: 21-May-2009 - We found that drinking cold liquids from polycarbonate bottles for just one week increased urinary BPA levels by more than two-thirds Exposure to BPA may…
Bisphenol A: Controversy over widely used plastics chemical spurs product changes, regulatory debate
Public release date: 1-Jun-2008 Chemical & Engineering News The controversy over bisphenol A (BPA) is spurring manufacturers to offer BPA-free products and fueling debate over how new chemicals…
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