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Article: Health: Does 'Milk' Hurt Kids?
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- Newsweek
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- May 8, 2006
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Byline: Mary Carmichael
In 1997, Kelley Scanlon, an epidemiologist, and her colleagues at the Centers for Disease Control received a call from Georgia health authorities with disturbing news. The parents of two infants had weaned their babies onto soy- and rice-based milk substitutes, even though both can lack crucial nutrients found in fortified cow's milk and formula. As a result, the children were suffering from diseases that had all but disappeared in the United States: rickets (a severe deficiency of vitamin D) and kwashiorkor (protein deficiency). Without intervention, the infants could have grown up with bone or brain damage.
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