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Sep 07

Does Your Child Need a Multivitamin?

You know that it is wise to back up your computer.s hard drive; I recommend backing up your child.s food drive with a daily multivitamin/mineral supplement. This simple habit could improve your child.s health and even intelligence. I.ll explain briefly why I feel strongly about this:

For young babies, breast milk provides an ideal food. The match between their complex nutritional needs and the milk that moms make is spectacular. In their dance of supply and demand, babies are designed with a drive to enjoy just the right amount and moms are designed to make just the right amount. Even so, I do suggest that many breastfed babies take 200 IU of vitamin D daily, as the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends . but not because of any lack in breast milk. We are built to get vitamin D from sun exposure. Because of the amount of time babies spend indoors, and the depleted-ozone-caused need for…(continue reading)


Originally posted September 7, 2007
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