Illustration based on an article from The New York Times :
Despite decades of the “breast is best” message, African-American women often are not encouraged to nurse as much as white women.
The newborns of African-American women are nine times more likely than the babies of white mothers to be given formula in hospitals.
One of the reasons is because the hospitals serving lower-income populations often rely on formula companies for financial support and lactation consultants are seen as supplemental, not essential...
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