The best food for babies, most people were convinced, was commercially bottled baby formula.” I was born in 1968. Because I had always blamed my mother, I experienced a rush of relief when I came across the following sentence near the end of Mark Kurlansky’s magisterial “Milk! A 10,000-Year Food Fracas”: “In 1971, only 24 percent of American women breast-fed and only 5 percent continued to do so after six months. Here’s a list of things I’d be if I had been breast- instead of bottle-fed: 2 to 3 inches taller, more confident, more sane, allergic to neither cats nor horses nor camels, less uncomfortable in my skin, 15 to 20 I.Q. MILK! A 10,000-Year Food Fracas By Mark Kurlansky Illustrated.
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