Baby formula milk companies 'exploit' parents' fears to boost sales, analysis alleges

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Many baby formula milk companies allegedly exploit parents' emotions and 'manipulate' scientific data to boost sales, according to a major new analysis published in The Lancet.

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Scientific evidence overwhelmingly supports breastfeeding newborns, if possible and desired. Breastfeeding has well-documented health benefits for both the parent and the baby., babies who are breastfed are at lower risk of illnesses and diseases including asthma, obesity, type 1 diabetes and sudden infant death syndrome.Babies can also receive antibodies from the mother's breast milk, which boosts their immune systems and helps protect them from disease.

According to the analysis, formula milk companies use exploitative tactics to sell products such as preying on parents' fears about their children's health and development. "The formula milk industry uses poor science to suggest, with little supporting evidence, that their products are solutions to common infant health and developmental challenges," co-author Professor Linda Richter, from Wits University in South Africa, said in a press release. "Adverts claim specialized formulas alleviate fussiness, help with colic, prolong night-time sleep, and even encourage superior intelligence.

The authors called for broader societal changes to help offset the exploitative behavior of formula milk companies.

 

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Meghann_MT I think you just defined advertising.

oh.. like pHarmeceutical companies who rely on biased data and corruption for sales?

This is not news. Every food/drug related industry plays the marketing manipulation game. The FDA was bought and paid for many years ago

Thanks Biden

In other words, it’s all thanks to Joe Biden

Now do big pharma

maltodextrin, corn syrup solids etc. its right on the ingredients list. this is the last thing you want to give to a baby

The Lancet, The Voice of Covid

So you want more jabbed mothers to give their now tainted jab breast milk to their babies? You are bought and paid for by Pfizer gene therapy ad dollars. You don’t even try to hide it you are so bought and paid for now.

Now do pfizer

That would be your incompetent democrat administration that you’re the propaganda mouthpiece for, destroying the lives of millions

You don’t say?

You sound jealous.

Now, do the media promotion of the Vaccine.

hospitals have contracts with them and help coerce new parents into using this garbage as well.

How dare them!!! That’s Big Pharma’s job! 😡

no way that's so crazy i cant believe they'd do something like that

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