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Infant Feeding - Anatomy of a Controversy 1973-1984 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1988)
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Infant Feeding - Anatomy of a Controversy 1973-1984 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1988)
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Infant Feeding is about a controversy which fascinated the medical
and scientific world, as well as national and international health
authorities, politicians, religious groups and consumer
organisations, for more than 11 years. It often disturbed public
opinion, being concerned, as it is, with nothing less than the life
and death of babies. The infant food industry was directly accused
of having caused a decline in breast-feeding through the
inappropriate marketing of breast milk substitutes. The problem was
said to be particularly acute in poor under-developed communities,
because illiterate mothers were unable to understand instructions
for its use, water was often contaminated and, in order to
"stretch" an admittedly expensive product, it was over-diluted. The
inevitable result, said the critics of industry, was malnutrition,
gastroenteritis and increased infant mortality. These were very
serious charges against companies which had until then been
generally considered to provide an important contribution to
medical progress and child health. One company was to be
particularly singled out: Nestle SA, the Swiss multinational.
Perhaps it became the target because it was the longest
establishment, and served well as a symbol of the whole industry.
It is a story which is full of confrontations, intrigue and
passionately-held opinions, based, nevertheless, on a sizeable body
of medical science. After countless twists and turns, it has some
sort of "happy ending". Yet a great deal remains to be said, as
will be seen throughout the book.
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