Baby formula to thin your baby! WTF?
Now this is definitely something for all those model moms to cheer about. You can now have thin babies as well?
Gasp! It's a dream come true, isn't it?
It seems that now, scientists, who were probably hired by some anorexic mom who wants her fetus in tip top shape, have discovered baby formula, minus the fat, which may make them obese.
It does this by suppressing hunger in babies. Sounds to me like the equivalent of whey powder.
I can already see babies comparing fat percentages and teasing the fatty for having more than 10% fat.
I've a vivid imagination.
Fine, I do understand that we are on the verge of being a world of fatties, and I'm probably there already, but to need baby formula to cope with obesity? I think we're reaching for it just a tad here.
Why not look into exercise as well as nutrition. Sure I'll admit that some babies may have a slow metabolism, thus the need for the hunger suppressant foods like this, but the fact that parents continue to push their kids in trolleys and carry them around on their backs in some sort of backpack looking device....sure, it helps the parents stay thinner, but you're making your child less enthused about exercise.
I understand that some parents may resent this, because they want to keep the child safe. Because letting a kid walk around a supermarket is dangerous with all the kidnappers lurking around the corner at some K-Mart or Carrefour or Makro or Tesco or wherever the heck you go shopping.
But it isn't helping your kid.
Let the kid run around, it'll be good cardio for the parents as well.
But who'll watch over them? some parents asked. Well, there's a kid play area being watched by attendants, who should be responsible enough to take care of them. And I'm sure CCTV's are there to help as well.
So please, dearest parents and future parents of newborns. You don't need a baby formula formulated like breast milk to keep your baby healthy. If that were the case, 20-year-olds would still be sucking on their moms to prepare for the next bodybuilding contest.
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In South America, Nestle Corporation sent women in simulated nurses uniforms to convince women to stop nursing their babies and use formula. This was touted as the way it was done in the modern, marvelous US! Unfortunately, the powder formula would become more expensive as the mother's reduced nursing and they began dilluting it with contaminated water. Remedy! Boycott Nestle for inhumane marketing practices. Yes, even chocolate. Say no to the big companies and let them know it in the boardrooms.
Adaline
[this is disgusting]
Man, those are some seriously screwed up moms/ scientists.
1) Breastfeeding is always best. Sometimes it's not possible, and for those times I have all sympathy and understanding for the moms. You need to do whatever works for you and your baby, and that changes with every mom and every child.
2) Fat babies are HEALTHY babies. My son is eight months old and twenty pounds. He is FAT, and he's HEALTHY. My mother is an obstetrician/family practice doctor and she says that she's never seen a correlation between fat babies and fat toddlers. Most kids start to lose the fat as soon as they learn to pull up and walk, no matter how insanely fat they were as infants.
3) I don't think that diet formula for babies and parents carrying their kids in stores has anything to do with each other. I carry my kids in stores and walk them around in strollers when I'm shopping simply because you can't let a very young child run loose in a store. It's just not possible. My kids get plenty of exercise, though, because I encourage physical activity at home and make sure that they spend at least an hour very active every day. We run around in circles, hop, skip, jump, roll around, dance, chase each other up and down the halls... It's a good warm-up for me as well! But I wouldn't criticize people who hold their kids while shopping. Unless you've ever had to watch a very young child alone while in public you don't understand the frustrations that can come from that. Most people stop giving formula after 12 months anyway because children no longer need the calories and are then old enough to drink cow's milk anyway, so this "diet" formula is probably intended for infants too young to walk.
All of that being said, this is crazy! I wonder if there is any real medical reason for this? Most people I know who formula feed their infants just water the formula down a little if they're advised to limit calorie intake. Cutting fat out entirely seems so extreme!
fat-laden diet. In contrast those whose mothers were untreated gain
weight and develop diabetes.
Yeah, way to get at the root of the problem. Give them the hormone so
they can keep eating all the super-sized crap fast food!
The supplemented milks are simply adding back something that was
originally present,"... "Breast milk contains leptin and formula feeds
don't.
Hmmm...so let's not suggest that people actually use breast milk... that
would be too logical, eh?
The concept that adding something to a food that could permanently
alter brain development is exciting...
Hahahahahha! Ha... Hmmm...
This is a good post. I agree with Max (yes, I do!) that wouldn't it be more logical just to encourage more mothers to breasfeed?
I nursed my children for 13, 14, and 18 months. Moms-to-be, once you get the hang of it, it's incredibly easy. Way, way easier than mucking about with mixing formulas and cleaning bottles. Only thing is, you have to have utterly no shame (yes, I was able to stop myself from purposely misspelling that word. The pun was just too, too awful). You have to be willing to pretty much whip it out anywhere and everywhere; you can't always count on a nice quiet private locale. I never had anyone come up and comment negatively when I was nursing in public, actually.
My kids were incredibly skinny as babies, so much so that many an older relative cluck-clucked disapprovingly and occasionally were heard to murmur thoughts on "supplementing with formula". However, the little tyrants declined to cooperate. Starting at age 12 weeks, each and every one of them developed a hatred of formula and indeed, bottles of any kind. My daughter never took another bottle, she went directly to sippy cup at 6 months when I went back to work part-time. She would drink my pumped milk from her sippy, but never a bottle, nor would she ever take formula in any form.
Babies need to eat, a LOT, so anything that cuts off their hunger urges would worry me greatly. They also need to take in a lot of fats, much more than adults do, for brain development.
Hm. This is kind of a scary article.