Your Grandmother Is Convinced That Formula Is the Best Way

question 241

Multiple Choice

Your grandmother is convinced that formula is the best way to feed infants because that is the way that she was fed as an infant.Although you do not want to argue,why did her mother's generation formula feed rather than breast-feed?

• A)Companies that produced formula convinced the public that formula feeding was the healthiest way to feed infants.
• B)Your great-grandmother was
• C)In the 1930s and 1940s it was much more difficult to breast-feed.
• D)Evidence is now beginning to emerge indicating that breast-feeding can be dangerous to infants.

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