From: "vrnparker" Mailing-List: list vediculture@yahoogroups.com Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 02:39:59 -0000 Subject: [world-vedic] Science Confirms Value of Vedic Grain Ceremony? --- In VFA-family@yahoogroups.com, "vrnparker" wrote: BELOW IS AN INTERESTING ARTICLE ON THE RISKS OF INTRODUCING GRAINS TO A CHILD TOO EARLY OR TOO LATE. IT SEEMS THIS CORRELATES WITH THE HINDU/VEDIC ANNA PRASHNA CEREMONY. (This is a ceremony where the child is introduced to its first solid food grains.) VRN http://www.usaweekend.com/03_issues/031109/031109healthbriefs.html DIABETES: A way to reduce it in babies Parents, you can cut your baby's odds of type 1 diabetes by sticking to the recommended schedule of introducing cereals at 4 to 6 months. Researchers tracked 1,000 healthy babies at high risk of developing diabetes and reported in the "Journal of the American Medical Association" that diabetes was four times higher in babies who began cereals before 4 months, and five times higher in those who began after 6 months.