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05/11/2018 / By Edsel Cook

You know probiotics are essential to gut health, but did you know they DETOXIFY your system too?

Probiotics do a lot of good things for your body. Among other things, they help you shed weight and fat, boost your immune system, and improve your digestion. And now, according to an article on GreenMedInfo.com, it turns out that probiotic bacteria can also cleanse toxic chemicals from your body. There are numerous toxins that resist […]

03/11/2018 / By Tracey Watson

Nestle called out for false health claims and deceptive marketing of its infant formula

The baby formula market is worth over $47 billion a year and is expected to increase by a further 50 percent in the next three years. Of the four biggest companies raking in most of these profits – Nestlé, Danone, Mead Johnson Nutrition and Abbott – Nestlé takes the lion’s share of the spoils, with […]

01/24/2018 / By Michelle Simmons

Build good eating habits from the beginning: Eating spicy food, strong flavors while breastfeeding gives babies more mature taste buds

If you want your child to be accustomed to spicy foods and other strong flavors, start eating these foods while breastfeeding, doctors suggest. This is contrary to the myth that eating spicy foods, such as chili, while breastfeeding will cause excessive gas and fussiness in babies. Jennifer Wider, medical adviser for the Society for Women’s […]

01/24/2018 / By Rhonda Johansson

Infant formula with prebiotics could enhance brain chemistry, improve learning and memory

A team from the University of Illinois concluded that prebiotics added to infant formula can improve memory and brain development in babies. Their research, which was published in Nutritional Neuroscience, explained how dietary polydextrose and galactooligosaccharide can increase exploratory behavior, recognition memory, and neurochemistry in young pigs. Polydextrose (PDX) is a synthetic carbohydrate with prebiotic […]

01/21/2018 / By Earl Garcia

Food giant Nestlé, maker and promoter of baby formula, will soon be marketing a probiotic supplement for breastfeeding mothers

A license agreement between Nestlé and Spanish biotech firm Biosearch SA will see the food giant using a breast milk probiotic strain in one of its supplements, a Nutra Ingredients article reported. According to the report, Biosearch SA recently licensed Nestlé group subsidiary Nestec SA to take hold of the global marketing of Biosearch Life’s Lactobacillus fermentum LC40 strain (L. […]

01/21/2018 / By Russel Davis

Impact of mother’s diet on quality of breast milk: Estimating infant intake of pesticides

New research published in the Journal of International Scientific Publication revealed that a mother’s diet may greatly affect the quality of breast milk and pose a threat to her baby. The scientists noted that the study, which was the first of its kind to measure pesticide exposure and its subsequent effects of toxic chemicals on both the mother […]

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