If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!My husband is adamant about not letting our daughter eat dairy. He has cited many studies showing the negative effects of dairy on the body, including being linked to allergies, and even cancer. He can get quite [...]
Every mom experiences this to some degree. Whether weaning from breast or formula to cow’s milk, babies and toddlers are notoriously awkward about drinking enough milk.
Pediatricians usually recommend around 16oz of cow’s milk a day for a one-year-old. My one-year-old was totally typical of weaning babies and thought he should drink one sip, then [...]
I will never take milk for granted again.
A couple of days back, I posted a piece on pathogenic bacteria in milk. And now comes the rBGH issue.
rBGH – it’s short for recombinant bovine growth hormone. I know that it was concocted by no other than the chemical giant Montsanto and that its trade name is [...]
It was already reported way back in 2004 that certain bacteria (both beneficial and harmful types) may actually survive pasteurization 1 and may therefore be present in that carton of milk or that yogurt you just bought today. This is a very disturbing thought especially for mothers but unfortunately very true.
This was confirmed by a [...]
If you are pregnant or breastfeeding at this time of the year, you better stock up on your vitamin D supplements. Sunlight exposure is a good source of vitamin D however, those of you living in the colder regions won’t be seeing much of it for the next few months because of the winter [...]
A Dutch study published in the British Journal of Nutrition has shown that where pregnant women consumed organic dairy products instead of the non-organic version there was significant reduction in the occurrence of eczema (36%) and of wheezing (11%) in their children by the age of 24 months.
This is part of an ongoing study called [...]
The previous belief that children usually outgrow dairy allergies by the age of three has been disproved by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Apparently only 19% of children outgrew this allergy by the age of 4 and 21% (over one fifth) of children still had not outgrown it by the age of 16. Those [...]
