Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word formula-fed.
Examples
-
In the first six months of life, a breast-fed baby takes in 10 milligrams of aluminum; a baby given a milk-based formula takes in 30 milligrams; a soy formula-fed baby gets 120 milligrams, Offit says.
-
However, more recent studies have shown that formula-fed infants will consume more because they don't have to work for it and they will eat until the bottle is empty.
Nancy Wurtzel: Obesity Epidemic: Is Your Mother to Blame? Nancy Wurtzel 2012
-
If this were a study showing that, say, breast-fed babies tended to be healthier than formula-fed ones, you think the researchers would insist that what was needed was a good set of policies to help support parents?
-
In the first six months of life, a breast-fed baby takes in 10 milligrams of aluminum; a baby given a milk-based formula takes in 30 milligrams; a soy formula-fed baby gets 120 milligrams, Offit says.
-
If this were a study showing that, say, breast-fed babies tended to be healthier than formula-fed ones, you think the researchers would insist that what was needed was a good set of policies to help support parents?
-
The ISER study – a working paper that will be peer-reviewed at a later date – compared breastmilk-fed children with formula-fed "twins", children who were equivalent in all other observable respects.
Breastfeeding aids child brain development, study finds 2011
-
Breast-fed infants ingest about 7 milligrams, formula-fed infants ingest about 38 milligrams, and infants who are fed soy formula ingest almost 117 milligrams of aluminum during the same period.
Aluminum 2010
-
Yet many formula-fed infants don't get enough, either.
-
Children who had been breastfed consistently outperformed their formula-fed peers at ages five, seven, 11 and 14 in tests of reading, writing and mathematics, researchers from the University of Oxford and the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex found.
Breastfeeding aids child brain development, study finds 2011
-
In the first six months of life, a breast-fed baby takes in 10 milligrams of aluminum; a baby given a milk-based formula takes in 30 milligrams; a soy formula-fed baby gets 120 milligrams, Offit says.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.