Pg 233 "It turns out that fructose has effects on fetuses as well. If a pregnant mom drinks a Coke, the fructose crosses the placenta and the fetus gets a large amount, which has been shown to stimulate the liver to make even more free palmitate. In addition, the taste receptors on the tongue develop at thirty weeks' gestation--way before the first taste of juice--meaning the fetus is sensing the fructose in the amniotic fluid. So yes, you can be addicted to soda at birth."
Pg. 234 "In order to get babies to eat the commercial stuff, manufacturers had to make it "appealing"--so they added sugar. Lots of it. The problem is that obese infants taste sugar less well than normal-weight infants, so the industry needed to add a greater amount for those infants to register their approval--just as they do for adults. But no matter--even thirty days of exposure can turn a sugar-ambivalent baby into a sugar-liker. It's in the industry's best interest to keep adding sugar so that the infant will only want to eat sweet foods--that they make. In fact, you have to introduce a savory food to an infant a median of thirteen times before they'll accept it. On the other hand, how many times do you have to introduce a sweet food to an infant before they'll accept it? Just once."
Pg. 237 "Thumbs and pacifiers can vault the palate, keeping it narrow, and lead to future dental and airway issues. The position of the tongue and the vaulting of the palate is the difference between nose-breathers and mouth-breathers. The tongue has to be elevated in the palate for us to be nose breathers, and sucking on mother's nipple instead of a plastic one reduces the risk for mouth breathing and overjet in later life."
Pg. 238 "Malocclusion is also the reason more wisdom teeth are being extracted. The jaw doesn't grow enough, so there isn't enough room for the third molars. Wisdom teeth are a biomarker or sign and symptom of the problem started by a plastic nipple or pacifier. But when dentists take them out, the jaw and oral airway collapse even further. In fact, you could develop obstructive sleep apnea after wisdom teeth extraction."
Pg. 234 "In order to get babies to eat the commercial stuff, manufacturers had to make it "appealing"--so they added sugar. Lots of it. The problem is that obese infants taste sugar less well than normal-weight infants, so the industry needed to add a greater amount for those infants to register their approval--just as they do for adults. But no matter--even thirty days of exposure can turn a sugar-ambivalent baby into a sugar-liker. It's in the industry's best interest to keep adding sugar so that the infant will only want to eat sweet foods--that they make. In fact, you have to introduce a savory food to an infant a median of thirteen times before they'll accept it. On the other hand, how many times do you have to introduce a sweet food to an infant before they'll accept it? Just once."
Pg. 237 "Thumbs and pacifiers can vault the palate, keeping it narrow, and lead to future dental and airway issues. The position of the tongue and the vaulting of the palate is the difference between nose-breathers and mouth-breathers. The tongue has to be elevated in the palate for us to be nose breathers, and sucking on mother's nipple instead of a plastic one reduces the risk for mouth breathing and overjet in later life."
Pg. 238 "Malocclusion is also the reason more wisdom teeth are being extracted. The jaw doesn't grow enough, so there isn't enough room for the third molars. Wisdom teeth are a biomarker or sign and symptom of the problem started by a plastic nipple or pacifier. But when dentists take them out, the jaw and oral airway collapse even further. In fact, you could develop obstructive sleep apnea after wisdom teeth extraction."