Mead Johnson

New Study Demonstrates 4 Year Olds Fed Enfamil LIPIL as Infants Have Brain and Eye Outcomes Similar to Breastfed Babies

Published in Lab Business Week, October 7th, 2007

A recently published study of 4 year olds who had been fed Enfamil LIPIL infant formula exclusively for their first 17 weeks of life has become the longest-term analysis of its kind to demonstrate breastfed-equivalent visual and IQ outcomes among formula- fed infants.(1) The study, which appeared in the journal Early Human Development, was funded by a grant from the National Institutes of Health.

"What this study means for parents is that we now have even longer-term evidence that DHA and ARA supplementation at the levels in Enfamil LIPIL is associated with visual acuity and brain development benefits similar to breast milk," said Deborah Diersen-Schade, Ph.D., a...

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