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 <pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 09:37 +0000</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2012 15:01 +0000</pubDate>
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 <description><![CDATA[Humans have been breastfeeding for nearly half a million years. It’s only in the last 60 years that we have begun to give babies highly processed convenience food called ‘formula’. Pat Thomas investigates]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:22 +0000</pubDate>
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