Breast Feeding
Breast feeding offers many benefits to your baby. Breast milk contains the right balance of nutrients to help your infant grow into a strong and healthy toddler. Some of the nutrients in breast milk also help protect your infant against some common childhood illnesses and infections. It may also help your health. Certain types of cancer may occur less often in mothers who have breastfed their babies.
Women who don’t have health problems should try to give their babies breast milk for at least the first six months of life. There are some cases when it’s better not to breast feed. If you have HIV or active tuberculosis, you should not breast feed because you could give the infection to your baby. Certain medicines, illegal drugs, and alcohol can also pass through the breast milk and cause harm to your baby.
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Health Fraud
You have probably seen ads for miracle cures – a supplement to cure cancer, a diet to cure diabetes. But remember – if it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is. Health fraud involves selling drugs, devices, foods or cosmetics that have not been proven effective. At best, these scams don’t work. At worst, they’re dangerous. They also waste money, and they might keep you from getting the treatment you really need.
Health scams often target older people. Most victims in the United States are older than 65. To protect yourself
- Question claims of “miracle cures” or “breakthroughs”
- Know that newspapers, magazines, and radio and TV stations do not have to make sure that the ads they run are true
- Find out about products before you buy them
- Don’t let salespeople force you into making snap decisions
- Check with your doctor before taking products
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