Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York City declined markedly between 1940 and 1970, while addiction to heroin increased and while divorce rates rose dramatically. But no one would argue that infant deaths were reduced by heroin or divorce. Clearly, infant mortality rates have dropped because of a host of factors such as improved health care, immunizations, higher standards of living...
There are many factors which influence mothers in developing countries to bottle feed rather than breast feed their infants. These include a lack of encouragement by health professionals, the fact that the breast has become a sex symbol and the belief that breast feeding may alter the contour of the breast, and the false impression that breast feeding is primitive and bottle feeding is sophisticated. But the main reason that women in developing countries bottle feed is that they falsely believe it is better for their infants. This belief has come largely from the promotional practices of the corporations...
...question one must ask oneself is whether he or she believes Nestles has helped persuade mothers to bottle feed and has encouraged them to do something that is not in the best interests of their babies' health. Nestles claims that it has made significant changes, and it is begging to be taken off the hook. It is clear that these small changes indicate first an admission of guilt, and second that the boycott and the adverse publicity have been effective...
...claims that no action should be taken against its practices no, while we wait for the outcome of a World Health Organizations conference to be held some time in the future...
...Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio in a Ford Econoline van packed with IBM computer equipment. In two hours he will analyze a farmer's dairy cows and whip out a formula for feed calculated to permit each beast to produce the maximum amount of milk while remaining in glowing health...