Black infants far less likely to be breast-fed (wonder – culture or low Vitamin D) – Aug 2017

Working to Close the Breast-Feeding Gap New York Times

• ““When your mother hasn’t breast-fed, it’s hard to get that support to breast-feed your own child,””
• The NYT article does not mention Vitamin D, only culture
• “newborns of African-American women were nine times more likely than the babies of white mothers to be given formula in hospitals”
  •  Download Racial and Ethnic Differences in Breastfeeding – 2016 from VitaminDWiki

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VitaminDWiki Hypothesis: Black mothers and hospitals have found that black infants thrive better on formula than breast milk having virtually no Vitamin D

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See also VitaminDWiki

• Dark skin pregnancies and Vitamin D - many studies
• Dark skin pregnancies 2.6 times more likely to have low vitamin D – March 2017
• Ethnicity and low vitamin D levels during pregnancy – Jan 2016
• 78 percent of pregnant immigrants in Sweden had less than 10 ng low vitamin D – Nov 2013
• CDC study of late 2011 has the following data