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Infants drink many things other than breast milk or formula. These drinks include artificially sweetened soft drinks even before 4 months of age. Cow's milk is used instead of breast or formula milk by 8 months in 13% of these infants. There is strong social bias in types of drinks given to infants
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Why is it important?
Feeding inappropriate drinks in infancy may lead to long-term health consequences
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This page is a summary of: Types of drinks consumed by infants at 4 and 8 months of age: sociodemographic variations, Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, April 2000, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-277x.2000.00218.x.
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