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citrus juice, and with beneficial results. This is especially significant since Vitamin C, essential to growth processes and vital in infant feeding is now easily available (in apple juice) to the babies who cannot tolerate citrus juice.
The study was conducted on 379 private patients born in the Winchester, Va. Memorial Hospital, who came under the care of Drs. William G. Way and Joseph M. Damron, between January 1960 and January 1962. Both full term and premature infants were included.
Little has been written or studied previously on the acceptance or tolerance of citrus juices by infants in their first weeks of life. The study conducted by these Board Certified Pediatricians was an attempt to compare various observations in two groups of infants. The first group received “infant prepared” citrus juice (orange juice) and the second group received “infant prepared” non-citrus juice (apple juice).
379 Babies Studied
The compilation data from this two-year study shows that the babies fed apple juice exhibited significantly fewer disorders than the infants fed orange juice. As further evidence of the dependent relationship between the type of juice taken and the physical condition of the infant, one compilation of statistics demonstrated the rate of occur
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