Population, infant mortality and milk

The milk of farm animals has played different parts in the history of human health and nutrition. At present, the fashion appears to be to cast cows' milk in the role of a villain, and to suggest that obesity rather than malnutrition is the more important problem ofchild health. This point of v...

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Published in:Population studies 1973-07, Vol.27 (2), p.243-254
Main Author: Beaver, M. W.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Children
Death
Demography
Diet - history
History of medicine
History, Modern 1601
Infant mortality
Infant mortality rates
Infant/Infants/Infancy (see also Baby)
Milk
Mortality
Mortality (see also Death, Dying)
Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
Population/Populations/ Populationists
Public health
Smallpox
Standard of living
Statistics as Topic - history
Tuberculosis
United Kingdom
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Summary:The milk of farm animals has played different parts in the history of human health and nutrition. At present, the fashion appears to be to cast cows' milk in the role of a villain, and to suggest that obesity rather than malnutrition is the more important problem ofchild health. This point of view, that milk might not be such an ideal part ofour diet has been expressed, for example, in an amusing article by Franks. 1
ISSN:0032-4728
1477-4747
DOI:10.1080/00324728.1973.10405708