By the United States Department of Labor
Summary: "No single factor exercises a more pronounced influence on the development of the baby and on his health during his entire life than nursing at his mother's breast." So wrote the U.S. Department of Labor in a series of booklets issued from the 1920s through the 1940s encouraging mothers to breast feed their infants. Though the government would later abandon its support of breast feeding, the Lee Foundation continued to print this collection of snippets from the various booklets released by the USDL, which includes diet recommendations for the breast-feeding mother. Fresh fruits and vegetables, milk, eggs, and lean meats are all emphasized—sound nutrition today just as it was then. Reprint 122.
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