December 19, 2011
A photo on AsianScientist showing a mother and her baby. A new mass media campaign in Vietnam asks mothers to feed their babies early and exclusively with breast milk for at least the first six months. A mass media campaign launched in Vietnam December 14 asks parents to ensure exclusive and continued breastfeeding during the early part of [...]
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August 5, 2011
I am a very lucky person. My mother breastfed me when I was baby – which was not very common in the 1950s in Sweden. I’ve breastfed both of my daughters – the youngest was reared on breast milk for 18 months. Now I have a 10-month old grandson, who was exclusively breastfed for [...]
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June 6, 2011
A central court has requested additional probe into a case of a father and son killing dozens of a neighbor’s ducks for feeding them on their rice field.  According to the indictment, Phung Van Duc, 45, and his son Phung Tan Loi, 17, attempted to attack five locals with billhooks on September 12 last year, after the locals were feeding [...]
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February 8, 2011
A two-week-old is held by his mother at The Children’s Hospital in Aurora, Colorado August 23, 2010 during a research study on obesity in infants. Babies raised on formula who start eating solid foods before they are 4 months old may be more likely to become obese than those who start later, suggests a new [...]
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December 24, 2010
Vietnam is yet to decide the fate of babies’ feeding bottles that contain a compound recently found to have adverse health effects, an official from the Ministry of Health said. Vietnam won’t make a final decision on the organic compound Bisphenol A (BPA) until after a March 2011 meeting of Codex Alimentarius Commission, whose [...]
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November 15, 2009
A mother breastfeeds her baby in Hanoi. Vietnam is among the 24 countries with the largest numbers of children under five years old who suffer from stunted growth. This âsurprisingâ finding is made by the recently released UNICEF report titled Tracking Progress on Child and Maternal Development.Approximately 200 million children under the age of five [...]
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September 28, 2009
A store chock full of baby formula is located next door to a maternity clinic. Relentless marketing is a surefire formula for success, but children might pay the price for missing out on breastfeeding. Children are at the receiving end as aggressive marketing of formula milk drowns out voices calling for mothers to exclusively breastfeed [...]
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February 15, 2009
Wildlife, beach picnics and respite from the dizzying city please tourists here, but the environment might be in danger. The mud-packed coastlines of Can Gio do not compare to the sandy beaches of Phu Quoc, Mui Ne or Nha Trang, but the mangroves, monkeys and crocodiles make a trip here well worthwhile. Since becoming Vietnamâs [...]
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