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This woman is an idiot. To put it mildly.

People Magazine Removes Article with Kristin Cavallari’s Unsafe Recipe for Goat’s Milk Baby Formula

March 20, 2016 by Hemant Mehta 34 Comments

Kristin Cavallari, a celebrity who’s basically famous for being famous, writes in her new book Balancing in Heels that she fed her newborn baby a kind of homemade formula that included goat’s milk. It’s the latest in a string of awful decisions that includes not vaccinating her children because she fears they’ll become autistic (a link that’s never ever ever been found).

To make matters worse, People magazine ran an article about Cavallari’s latest attempt to harm her children in a section of the website called “Great Ideas”:


… She uses [the goat’s milk-infused formula] once she’s stopped breastfeeding and has run out of her own frozen milk.

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Because her sons have “sensitivities to cow’s milk,” the former Laguna Beach star — who takes an anti-vaccination stance — uses goat’s milk powder for her homemade formula. Other ingredients include organic maple syrup and cod-liver oil.

In a stunningly idiotic move, the article included the recipe Cavallari mentioned in the book, you know, just in case parents wanted to make their own. (Writer Ana Calderone added that some pediatric experts warned against giving babies goat’s milk, which is important to note, but it makes the inclusion of the recipe that much more questionable.)

But let’s be very clear: This isn’t just some cutesy, unique idea. It’s downright dangerous.

The American Academy of Pediatrics explicitly mentions goat’s milk in a list of things you should not give your babies:

Infants should be fed breast milk or iron-fortified infant formula, even in infant cereal. If infants are weaned from breast milk before age 12 months, they should be fed iron-fortified infant formula rather than cow’s milk. Cow’s milk, goat’s milk, and soy milk are not recommended during the first 12 months of life.

If that’s the case, why would Cavallari give it to her babies?

According to one source, the same article in People quoted Cavallari’s reason: “[She] prefers to know every ingredient that goes into the foods she feeds her family — especially when it come to baby formula… I would rather feed my baby these real, organic ingredients than a heavily processed store-bought formula that contains ‘glucose syrup solids’…”

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2016/03/20/people-magazine-removes-article-with-kristin-cavallaris-unsafe-recipe-for-goats-milk-baby-formula/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=friendlyatheist_032016UTC070335_daily&utm_content=&spMailingID=50960727&spUserID=MTE4MTY1MzAzMTE5S0&spJobID=882596229&spReportId=ODgyNTk2MjI5S0

[Rex]

1. So just by knowing the ingredients in her food, her children are going to grow up healthier?

That is some real faith there. Gonna go read the ingredients to this candy bar before I eat it, that way I won't gain any weight.

[Nitram]

2. Yup, magical thinking at its best. nt

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3. Great. Another Jenny McCarthy.

[rjsquirrel]

4. Morons everywhere

Pathetic ignorance shielded by celebrity.

[Major Nikon]

5. The OP is a bit misleading

Evidently infant goat's milk formulations are a big hit with the anti-vax nutters. While the AAP recommends against giving cow and goat milk to infants, it's only "dangerous" if given exclusively which isn't what this particular nutter is doing. The biggest concern is iron fortification. Since the recipe has been pulled, I don't know what's in it, but it is conceivable (although unlikely) that her recipe includes the micronutrients babies need in the correct proportions.

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6. If it was just the goat's milk, I'd have some doubts. But...

Add to that the anti-vaccination craziness, combines for a possibly even lethal outcome for her kid.

I just read about this nutso in the anti-vaxx crowd as well:

http://americanloons.blogspot.ca/2016/03/1625-wendy-fournier.html