Most people calculate the cost of the price of infant formula, bottles and rubber nipples. You may also be the cost of sterilizing everything, which require clean water and energy.
However, the actual costs for baby food includes the cost of an increased risk for diseases that have the formula-fed children, compared to infants breastfed. These include medical care, medication, hospitalization and time off from work to take the parents to carethe sick child. Increased disease also affects children's growth and development. Finally, the use and manufacture of baby food strained the environment.
World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Children Fund (UNICEF) and the fact Canada has concluded that children fed with infant formula increased risk of:
Diarrhea and pneumonia
Child has been sick twice as often, and 3 times longer breastfedChildren. They also have an increased risk of pneumonia and diarrhea. Unlike prevented exclusive breastfeeding during the first six months of life, at least 33 percent of cases, diarrhea.
Asthma
Infants fed formula have a 40-50 percent higher risk of breastfeeding for asthma and respiratory problems of children in at least nine months.
Allergies
Children who were breastfed for as long as during infancy, decreased incidence of atopy, eczema, food wasAllergies and respiratory allergies.
Reduced intelligence
Children who are breastfed in infancy had a low IQ points of breastfeeding infants. The main differences were found with children who are breast-feeding for longer observed.
Infection from contaminated formula
The International Food Safety Authorities Network says it is not possible to produce baby food in the form of sterile powder. Therefore, the risk of contamination is alwayspresent. In fact, products for children, reminds us all the time, due to contamination with some 'tools for the metal particles on bacteria.
Chronic
Children who have little 'milk or not at increased risk of obesity and diabetes and cancer, leukemia.
Not the actual cost of infant formula to calculate in dollars and cents. It is not possible that the cost of illness and death of a calculationChild in a family. It should be noted that an increased risk of disease – death – is a part of the cost of baby food. Loss of human potential in terms of potential for intelligence, has not been realized because of the formula-feeding is another important and unpredictable costs. Parents who wish to make an informed decision on how to nurture and nourish their children, if the actual cost of infant formula is made aware of.
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