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Re:Impact of breast milk on IQ, brain size and white matter ... by roceasta on Thursday August 31, 2017 @05:37AM (#15139187)
The truth isn't obvious. In the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, it was 'obvious' to many people including doctors that bottle feeding with evaporated milk or formula milk was more scientific, more hygienic, and better all round.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2684040/

>By the 1940s and 1950s, physicians and consumers regarded the use of formula as a well known, popular, and safe substitute for breastmilk. Consequently, breastfeeding experienced a steady decline until the 1970s (Fomon, 2001)

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Re:Impact of breast milk on IQ, brain size and white matter ... by sbenitoj on Thursday August 31, 2017 @02:26PM (#15142582)
This is exactly what I'm talking about though, evolution was already proven long before the 1930s, and yet doctors went against an obvious evolutionary truth that breastmilk from a healthy, well-fed mother is superior to processed formula all because a few "studies" proved it?? (cough studies funded by formula companies cough)
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Re:Impact of breast milk on IQ, brain size and white matter ... by roceasta on Thursday August 31, 2017 @02:39PM (#15142697)
Well I would tend to agree but I think in many cases the alternative wasn't mother's milk exactly but that of a wet nurse. Perhaps they thought this was a vector for infection.
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