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