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We all know what the BEST food for babies is (at least for the first 6 months): breast milk! But what about children who can’t get it, because they are adopted, for instance? The solution may be at hand: Scientists have successfully introduced human genes into 300 dairy cows to produce milk with the same properties as human breast milk.
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If you’re pregnant, be sure to eat a low-fat diet, or else your baby may be fat too?all his or her life! A study in rats shows that exposure to a high-fat diet during pregnancy produces permanent changes in the offspring’s brain that lead to overeating and obesity.

Researcher Sarah F. Leibowitz says, “We’ve shown that short-term exposure to a high-fat diet in utero produces permanent neurons in the fetal brain that later increase the appetite for fat. This work provides the first evidence for a fetal program that links high levels of fats circulating in the mother’s blood during pregnancy to the overeating and increased weight gain of offspring after weaning?We’re programming our children to be fat.”
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We’ve reported on the dangers of feeding infants with plastic baby bottles. Now it?s been discovered that although breastfeeding doesn’t make kids smarter, breastfed kids DO attain higher social status when they’re adults.

A large, long term study reveals that breastfed kids climb higher up the social ladder than bottle-fed children. For two years, from 1937-1939, over 3,000 children from 16 rural and urban areas across England and Scotland were monitored from birth. Around 1,400 children, who are in their 60s and 70s today, were studied.
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We can save the lives of millions of infants every year in the third world. In the West, we can save the lives of their mothers as well?and also the lives of their children, especially their sons, when they grow to maturity. What is the magic that can achieve all these miracles? Breast feeding.

Andy McSmith writes in the Independent that studies have shown that, in poor countries, four million babies die every year before they?re one month old. One quarter of them (a million babies every year), could be saved if they were breastfed from the first hour of their life.

But a major problem with breast-feeding in Africa is mothers with HIV. The World Health Organization (WHO) warns that mothers can pass the virus to their infants through their milk.
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