"The history of infant nutrition recommendation is rife with absurdity. ... In the 1960s, pediatrician Walter Sackett wrote a book recommending infants eat bacon and eggs at nine weeks old 'just like Dad'." #i2 @AmerAcadPeds http://a.msn.com/05/en-us/AAF2CNo?ocid=st …
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The only "reason" given is that Sackett couldn't "recall a single incident where [it] has presented any problem." It seems a pediatrician's advice to give bacon to a neonate wasn't based on science, but personal preference & belief about how a baby should be "just like Dad."
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In other words, this advice was "made up", as the chair of
@AmerAcadPeds nutrition committee admits, w/some "common official advisories" having come from "ancient texts" and "mythology rather than science." Hmm, where else have we seen pediatricians do this?#i2#tweetiatrician2 replies 0 retweets 2 likesShow this thread
@AmerAcadPeds nutrition "committee doesn't just look at the evidence, they grade it." What can they say of the AAP's #circumcision "policy statement" which has "been graded by almost all other pediatric societies and associations worldwide as being scientifically untenable"? #i2
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