Saturday, April 9, 2016

Making your own infant formula at home is a recipe for disaster

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Recently, former reality television star Kristin Cavallari released a potentially lethal recipe for homemade baby formula in her new lifestyle book, Balancing in Heels.  Cavallari, who rose to fame as high-schooler on MTV’s Laguna Beach, is attempting to rebrand herself as an all-organic Suzy homemaker and offering dangerous medical advice along the way.

In her book, Cavallari goes against all conventional medical wisdom, advocating for feeding young babies a homemade concoction instead of commercially manufactured infant formula.  As part of her press tour, she released a recipe for homemade formula, which includes goat’s milk powder, organic maple syrup, olive oil, cod-liver oil and molasses.

While Cavallari is not the first celebrity to offer dubious medical advice (Gwyneth Paltrow treating her flu at the spa or advocating for vaginal steams, anyone?), this recipe crosses the line from absurd to downright dangerous.

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