'Toddler Milk' is a scam

Plus more health news | Email not displaying correctly? [View it in your browser.]( [Health Matters]( [Don’t Fall For the Marketing. ‘Toddler Milk’ Is Not Good For Your Child]( By Haley Weiss Health Reporter Though I don’t have kids, I know from my years covering health that early-childhood nutrition is critical—so much of how kids eat in the first few years of life can have long-term impacts on their health. That’s why it was so shocking for me to learn about the unregulated Wild West of “toddler formula” (sometimes called “toddler milk”), which is sold as the nutritional next step for babies being weaned off breastmilk or infant formula. These corn-syrup- and vegetable-oil-laden beverages have next to nothing in common with carefully designed infant formulas, but you’d never know it from the nearly identical packaging and closes space they share on store shelves. The confusion this causes is likely intentional, experts say. The origins of toddler milk can be traced back to the 1980s, when many countries banned direct-to-consumer marketing of infant formulas and brands searched for a stand-in to keep logos in magazines and profits high. Now, with toddler milk sales climbing, the American Academy of Pediatrics and other experts say that it’s time to expand industry regulations to cover these products too, both to prevent dangerous mix-ups and protect the diets of toddlers—who don’t really require any supplemental nutrition. [READ MORE]( Share This Story What Else to Read [‘Our Death Is Pending.’ Stories of Loss and Grief From Gaza]( By Yasmeen Serhan, Astha Rajvanshi, Anna Gordon and Karl Vick Hear from nine Palestinians who have lost family, friends, homes, and neighborhoods amid Israel’s ongoing airstrikes in the Gaza Strip. [Read More »]( [Pig-Heart Transplant Recipient Is Doing Well After a Month]( By LAURAN NEERGAARD / AP Laurence Faucette, the second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig, is well and doing physical therapy. [Read More »]( [A TikTok Trend About 'Store-Bought Pesto' Is Making People Spill Their Wildest Stories]( By Moises Mendez II A home-cooking influencer's video about not liking store-bought pesto has created a trend in which people spill their wildest stories. [Read More »]( [The Power of Osage Storytelling]( By Geoffrey Standing Bear Osage Nation’s Chief Geoffrey Standing Bear on how Osage storytelling connects us with our past and our present. [Read More »]( [COVID-19 Can Affect the Brain Long After an Infection]( By Jamie Ducharme COVID-19 can have profound effects on the brain, leading to neurocognitive symptoms like brain fog, memory loss, and even dementia. [Read More »]( [Now's The Time to Bring Up Menopause At Work]( By Alana Semuels Companies are beginning to expand health benefits to cover menopause as Millennials start to enter perimenopause. [Read More »]( ONE LAST READ [Listen to this pharma jingle at your own peril]( Most TV commercial jingles that become cultural earworms are for products that are relatively innocuous at best ("[Ch-ch-ch-chia!]( "[I don't wanna grow up...]( and more often worse, especially in terms of health ("[Gimme a Break,]( " [I'm Lovin' It.]( The Washington Post 's Travis M. Andrews writes about a different kind of commercial music, profiling the "queen of a pharma earworm." [Read More »]( If you were forwarded this and want to sign up to receive it daily, [click here](. Today's newsletter was written by Haley Weiss and Elijah Wolfson, and edited by Elijah. [Want more from TIME? Sign up for our other newsletters.]( [Subscribe to TIME]( TIME may receive compensation for some links to products and services in this email. Offers may be subject to change without notice. Connect with TIME via [Facebook]( | [Twitter]( | [Newsletters]( [UNSUBSCRIBE]( [PRIVACY POLICY]( [YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS]( TIME Customer Service, P.O. Box 37508, Boone, IA 50037-0508 Questions? Contact health@time.com Copyright © 2023 TIME USA, LLC. All rights reserved.