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Vitamin D and your baby
By Laura Lee Davies on 26/02/2010 01:42:03
Vitamin D is an important nutrient for your baby, and increasingly scientists rate its anti-cancer powers, so how do you bring it into your baby's diet?
Why is vitamin D important?Vitamin D helps build healthy bones and teeth, aiding the body's use of its mineral intake. It also helps your baby make the most of the calcium he's having. Without enough vitamin D a child can be at risk of rickets
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The good vitamin guide
By Cheryl Freedman on 30/09/2011 11:56:32
Concerned your newly weaned baby isn't getting all the nutrients he requires? He may need to take a vitamin supplement – read on to find out why
prematurely or has health issues.However, once little ones reach six months and start to wean, their needs change. They can no longer get all their essential nutrients from the bottle or breast alone. At this stage the stores of vitamins such as iron, which
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Parents warned not to self-diagnose baby’s food allergies
By Kimberley Smith on 10/08/2010 13:49:36
Massive increase in children’s allergic reactions to food but misdiagnosis also on the rise
worrying unnecessarily about their children. But actually 6%-8% of all children in the UK with a genuine allergy is a huge number,” said paediatric allergist Dr Adam Fox.Poorer diets of processed and junk food and a lack of vitamin D have been linked
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