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• On the hunt for vitamin D

  Published: July 26, 2007, 5:00 am

  Tags: Board, Breast, Cancer, Dark, Dietary, Dri, Fatty, Fish, Food, Fortified, Good, Housekeeping, Intake, International, Milk, Multivitamin, Nutrition, Reference, Risk, Skin, Sun, Sunscreen, Supplement, Units, Vitamin

  mercury levels. Fortified milk is also good. It has 100 IU of vitamin D per eight-ounce serving, but cow's milk been linked to breast cancer risk as well.The sun allows our bodies to create vitamin D but in most parts of the country, it's hard to get enough in the winter. Plus, those with dark skin and those who use sunscreen don't get

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• Happy National Coffee Milkshake Day!

  Published: July 26, 2007, 9:00 am

  Tags: Coffee Drinks, Dunkin Donuts, National Coffee Milk Shake Day, National Coffee Milkshake Day, Nationalcoffeemilkshakeday, Starbucks

  Holidays That's coffee milkshake. So, by law, you cannot have any other flavor of milkshake until midnight tonight, OK? The food police will be watching. If you don't want to go the Starbucks or Dunkin' Donuts route, how about making one of these Coffee House Milk Shakes from Kraft or maybe one of these basic Coffee Milk Shakes For Two.

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• Happy National Milk Chocolate Day!

  Published: July 28, 2007, 4:41 am

  Tags: Milk Chocolate, Milk Chocolate Brownies, Milk Chocolate Desserts, Milk Chocolate Fondue, Milk Chocolate Pie, Milk Chocolate Popcorn, Milkchocolate, Milkchocolatepie, National Milk Chocolate Day

  I could list all of the milk chocolate recipes out there, but I don't think Slashfood can hold that much data. But here are some good ones: Milk Chocolate Brownies, Milk Chocolate Pie, Milk Chocolate Biscotti, Milk Chocolate Fudge, Milk Chocolate Fondue, and Milk Chocolate Popcorn. And don't forget our own chocolate category, of course.

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• Skim Milk Straight From The Cow

  Published: August 1, 2007, 12:30 pm

  Tags: Cows, Dairy, Non Fat Milk, Skim Milk, Skim Milk Cows

  of cows producing skimmed milk. Right now the process of getting skim (or non-fat) milk involves removing fat from the milk. Many feel this leaves an unsatisfactory taste and lots of fatty waste. Scientists in New Zealand have discovered that some cows have genes that give them a natural ability to produce skimmed milk and plan to use this

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• What Does Your RDI Look Like: Vitamin D

  Published: August 2, 2007, 5:30 pm

  Tags: Milk, Oily Fish, Rdi, Salmon, Sunlight, Vitamin D

  I was talking to a friend of mine the other day and she was on her way to the beach to get her "daily dose of Vitamin D," she said. While it's true that 10-15 minutes of sunshine (ultraviolet-B), 3 times a week, is all the time your body needs to produce the required amount of Vitamin D, I wouldn't use it as an excuse to go out and bake in the

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• Herbal teas that really work to increase breast milk supply in breastfeeding mothers

  Published: August 3, 2007, 12:45 am

  Tags: Breast Milk Supply, Breastfeeding, Increase Breast Milk Supply, Increasing Milk, Nursing

  Herbs and their benefits are amazing, especially to a breastfeeding mother needs to increase breast milk supply. Traditionally, certain herbs were used in wet nurses to increase breast milk production. Wet nurses usually had to breastfeed two or more children, so they really needed the extra milk.

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• A mother’s breastfeeding story

  Published: August 6, 2007, 5:20 am

  Tags: Public Health, Breastfeeding, Breast Milk, Milk Code, Senator Pia Cayetano

  THE Philippines, with 2.5 million babies born annually, is a huge market for milk companies. According to the Department of Health (DOH), breastmilk substitutes in the country rake in P21 billion annually. When such a huge amount is at stake, advertising costs of P2.3 billion, which is how much milk companies have [...]

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• What Does Your RDI Look Like: Calcium

  Published: August 8, 2007, 6:45 pm

  Tags: Almonds, Bones, Broccoli, Calcium, Dairy, Milk, Nuts, Rdi, Tahini

  Your Milk. Milk Does a Body Good. Got Milk? Alright already, so we know we are supposed to be getting calcium daily, and dairy products do contain this valuable mineral, but you can find calcium in many other foods including broccoli, almonds, salmon, and fortified orange juice. Try to get your calcium from the food you eat, rather than

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• Raw Milk: Cool or Not?

  Published: August 9, 2007, 3:10 pm

  Tags: Cool Not, Poll, Raw Milk

  illegal in 15 states: Raw milk consumption. Yes, I'm talking unpasteurized, unhomogenized, raw milk straight from the cow. Honestly it makes me cringe to even think about it but apparently people love the stuff for two reasons. For one, they like the richer taste. Also, for nutritional reasons. Some feel that pasteurization (process of heating

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• Is Soy Safe?

  Published: August 9, 2007, 6:45 pm

  Tags: Miso, Soy, Soy Milk, Soy Sauce, Tofu

  (steamed whole soybean), soy milk, and fermented soy products such as tempeh, miso, and soy sauce. Recently, in North America, soy has become a huge hit. All these products are becoming widely available, in addition to some new ones like soy nuts, soy-based meat alternatives, soy-based beverages, soy chips, soy ice cream, soy yogurt, and soy

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• Speed Read Feed for August 11, 2007

  Published: August 11, 2007, 3:03 am

  Tags: Speed Read Feed, Breast Feeding, Breastfeeding, Bumpshack, Los Angeles, Lottery, Mcdonalds, Merv Griffin, Milk, President Bush, Sex, Sex Slavery, Vacation

  Charleston Daily Mail Milk prices have risen to record highs- Breitbart Merv Griffin in grave condition- AZ Central Woman must forfeit $1 million lottery win- KPTV Five breast-feeding mistakes and remedies- CNN War adviser considers

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• A Week In Review: FitSugar Roundup

  Published: August 11, 2007, 7:00 am

  Tags: Week In Review, Jessica Biel Workout, Raw Milk

  What about drinking raw milk? Learn more about circut training and if it's right for you. Maybe it's time to stop using your baby as an excuse not to workout. An oldie but a goodie: Here is Jessica Biel's

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• Have you ever wondered what year-old food looked like?

  Published: August 14, 2007, 7:01 am

  Tags: Bacon Tomb, Bacontomb, Egg Tomb, Rotten Food Experiment, Rotten Milk, Year Old Food

  I left a thermos full of milk in my school bag over the weekend. By Monday morning, when my mom opened it, the milk had turned into gassy, curdled, explosive concoction. She was not happy. About year ago, Carl started his own perishable foods experiment. He put a strip of bacon and an egg into their own air tight plastic containers and

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• Milk Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

  Published: August 15, 2007, 9:00 am

  Tags: Recipes, Chip, Chocolate, Cookies, Milk

  2largeeggs 1 3/4cupsmilk chocolate chips 1cup choppednuts (optional) DIRECTIONS Preheat oven to 375 . Combine flour, baking soda and salt in small bowl. Beat butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar and vanilla extract in large

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• Court orders woman to stop breastfeeding

  Published: August 17, 2007, 8:32 am

  Tags: Breastfeeding, Child Custody, Childcustody, Custody, Drug Interactions, Druginteractions, Drugs, Interactions, Medications, Medicines, Milk

  being able to produce enough milk, or even logistical problems that just make it nigh impossible. There is, however, something very, very wrong with a court ordering a woman to stop because of a custody dispute.Carter Burton was born six weeks premature and his mother's doctor said that breastfeeding would be best for him. His mother, Christa

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