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2006-06-21
Rapid Early Growth Linked to Type 1 Diabetes
PakTribune.com, Pakistan - 14 hours ago report. But the role a child�s diet and duration of breast-feeding might have in this link remains unclear, the authors say. In
Patterson and his team found that the children with diabetes had indeed grown more quickly during childhood than children without diabetes, and that increased weight was more strongly associated with diabetes than height. When growth was measured by body mass index, a measure of weight in relation to height, diabetic children were again found to have grown more rapidly than non-diabetic kids.

2006-06-20
Lack of breast-feeding caused Nepal royal family�s downfall?
Daily News & Analysis, India - Jun 18, 2006 cause for the downfall of Nepal�s King Gyanendra and the Shah dynasty that ruled the kingdom for over 200 years � the lack of breast-feeding by the Shah
Peter J Karthak, author and columnist, attributes the disintegration of Nepal�s royals and their growing unpopularity to the royal babies� never knowing �the comfy zones of their mothers� bucket-seat laps and pillow-like soft bosoms�. Karthak, who was educated in North Point school in Darjeeling, where the current king and his two brothers also studied around the same time, wrote in the Kathmandu Post daily on Sunday that the lack of breast-feeding, symbolising the meagre role mothers played in royal childrens� lives, caused the �male brats� to grow up as �drunkies (sic), junkies, spoilers, wastrels and mean murderers�.

2006-06-19
Feeding the baby
Chicago Tribune, United States - Jun 15, 2006 Should formula come with a warning label? Breast-feeding is an option for parents. Breast-feeding is by no means easy for everyone to master.
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2006-06-18
BIRD FEEDER MAKEOVER Now the backyard flutters with color and life
Central Maine Morning Sentinel, ME - Jun 17, 2006 Part of feeding birds is being able to see and enjoy them from your home," he said. It's part of bird feeding's "big three" -- food, cover and water.
Having cover within 25 feet or so of your feeder is important because birds rarely eat seeds in the open. He explained that most birds, like chickadees, can't manipulate seeds with their bills, so instead, they individually weigh each morsel at the feeder, pick the one that's just the right weight to make the trip worthwhile, then fly it to a nearby shrub or tree where they can peck them open in safety.

2006-06-16
Milk Code given teeth in health dialogue
Philippine Information Agency, Philippines - 2 hours ago Feeding bottles and teats are not allowed in health centers including display of posters and leaflets on infant formula, bottled complimentary foods and other
Under the Milk Code, public health facilities should not allow infant formula or milk representatives in the health facilities. Feeding bottles and teats are not allowed in health centers including display of posters and leaflets on infant formula, bottled complimentary foods and other regulated products. Display of infant formula and other milk products are also not allowed in the public health centers.

2006-06-15
Breast bullies
Salon - 1 hour ago During my pregnancy, I'd had every intention of breast-feeding; I'd even looked forward to it, imagining my infant and me pressed against each other in a
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2006-06-14
Foliar feeding versus root feeding
Dowagiac Daily News, USA - 15 hours ago I could break down fertilizing into column after column. For instance, did you know that feeding the soil is more important than feeding your plants?
We want to feed and provide a food source for good soil microbe and micro-organisms, beneficial bacteria and fungal activity, such as mycorrhizal fungi (I could write a whole column on this alone) and the part they play in making nutrients more available to our plants.

1. Breast Feeding And Sexuality: Behaviour, Beliefs and Taboos Among the Gogo Mothers in Tanzania
DT443 2005-046939 1-57181-677-1 Breast feeding and sexuality; behaviour, beliefs, and taboos among the Gogo mothers in Tanzania. Mabilia, Mara.

2. Home care enteral feeding
RC953 2004-026200 3-8055-7850-4 Home care enteral feeding. Nestle Nutrition Workshop of the Clinical and Performance Nutrition Program (10th: ...

3. Helen Gremillion. ''Feeding Anorexia: Gender and Power at a Treatment Center''
Helen Gremillion. Feeding Anorexia: Gender and Power at a Treatment Center. North Carolina, NC: Duke University Press. 2003. Pp. 280, references, index.

4. Proper care and feeding: think your CDs and DVDs are indestructible? Guess again
Proper care and feeding: think your CDs and DVDs are indestructible?

5. New state-specific breast-feeding data now available
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now has state-by-state data on the percentage of mothers who are breast-feeding their babies and ...