And if we're going to remove formula samples for women to promote breast-feeding, we better come up with a plan to feed the babies of that 5% of women who can't sustain them -- with 4 million births a year, that's 200, 000 moms who need extra help.

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The whales are known to only feed in summer and their main feeding area is in the Piltun Bay which lies at the north eastern part of Sakhalin shelf.

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She had to feed my father because ALS made it so he was incapable of feeding himself.

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At one week of age, 10% of the formula group was still using formula in some way as part of their feeding strategy compared to 47% of the group originally assigned to breast-feed but who added formula.

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"When we force-feed ducks and geese and we stop the force-feeding, the liver recesses to normal, " Daguin says.

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The killer whales that feed on mackerel have been found to have very worn down teeth as a result of their feeding behaviour.

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And at three months, 79% of the formula group was exclusively breast-feeding, significantly more than the 42% of moms in the group originally instructed to breast-feed.

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"They're going there to feed, or they're going there for meeting, where males and females could meet perhaps away from a feeding area, where there's less competition and more focus on mating behaviour, " he suggested.

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