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Will it hurt to give our 8.month old baby a teaspoon of sugar in his formula bottle?
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Teaching Obesity: There is no health benefit for sugar for your baby. Why would you add extra sugar calories to your child's nutrition. Our babies in this country are in general obese and dangerously so. Diabetes is on the rise in the young as much as it is in the adult population. Extra sugar is not only unnecessary it can be a dangerous habit to give to your children.
Answered 6/12/2013
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