Breast milk loses antioxidants when stored
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The journal Archives of Disease in Childhood has published a study that says breast milk loses antioxidants when it is refrigerated or frozen.
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A study suggests that certain antioxidants found in spinach and greens seem to protect against cataract. Around 20 million people in the USA suffer from cataract - a clouding of the eye lens that is linked to oxidative stress.
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If you are a nursing mother, think twice before freezing or refrigerating your expressed breast milk as you could be undermining its crucial antioxidant content.
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CHICAGO -- Breast-feeding helps prevent babies' allergies, but there's no good evidence for avoiding certain foods during pregnancy, using soy formula or delaying introduction of solid foods beyond six months. That's the word from the American Academy of Pediatrics, which is updating earlier...
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A GLASS of fresh milk could help reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke, new research has found. According to data to be presented to a World Dairy Summit in Melbourne today, people with an above average
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Children being treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) seem more able to deal with their treatment if their levels of antioxidants don't drop too much, new study findings suggest.
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In another blow to the belief that antioxidant supplements improve health, an authoritative analysis has concluded there is no evidence the vitamins ward off common digestive cancers.    Some experts say, however, that the findings do not mean the cancer-fighting potential of antioxidant pills should be written off just yet...
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NEW YORK  - The heavier a woman is when she becomes pregnant, the less likely she is to stick with breast-feeding long-term, a new study from Denmark shows.
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(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Fortifying foods like flour, pasta and cornmeal with folic acid markedly reduces the number of infants born with neural tube defects like spina bifida, finds a new study in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth.
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NEW YORK  - Breastfeeding has many benefits for babies, but protection from obesity may not be one of them, a UK research team reports.
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U.S. News & World Report - Nearly all pregnant women know that they have to take prenatal supplements and stop smoking and drinking to protect the health of their unborn baby. But does it really make a difference to Baby if you gorge on ice cream and skimp on fruit, grilled chicken, and brown rice? Actually, yes. David Barker, a professor of medicine at Oregon Health and Sciences University in Portland, explains the theory.
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The tiniest premature infants fed with breast milk in the hospital did better on tests of mental development later in life than did others fed only formula, a new study has found.
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NEW YORK  - Feeding very low birth-weight  infants with mother's milk rather than formula doesn't seem to  improve their neurological development, researchers have found.
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The heavier a woman is when she  becomes pregnant, the less likely she is to stick with  breast-feeding long-term, a new study from Denmark shows.
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(Ivanhoe Newswire ) -- New research shows not only is breast feeding your newborn beneficial, but making sure the milk is fresh is also crucial.
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Cooling the brains of newborns who have  been deprived of oxygen during birth could help cut the risk of  brain damage.
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Increasing a mother's intake of folic acid by adding the vitamin to food supplies has been shown to cut the risk of having a baby with neural tube defects, a birth defect in which the spine doesn't fuse properly. However, new research indicates that this benefit is much weaker in overweight and obese women.